novelnovelThe Yellow GodThe Yellow Godhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/87/original/theYellowGodCupplesCover.jpeg?1480717178Haggard's romance The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa concerns a lost race governed by the Priestess-Queen Asika. The wicked queen takes a new husband every year and keeps the mummified corpses of her lovers in a treasu...Haggard's romance <span style="font-style:italic;">The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa</span> concerns a lost race governed by the Priestess-Queen Asika. The wicked queen takes a new husband every year and keeps the mummified corpses of her lovers in a treasure house. Literary critic Nicholas Daly calls <span style="font-style:italic;">YG</span> "a more openly misogynistic retelling of <span style="font-style:italic;">She</span>" (41). Cupples and Leon Co., New York, published the first US edition in 1908 which featured three illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/18">Frank T. Merrill</a>. Cassell and Co., London, published the first UK edition on 5 March 1909, illustrated with three full-page illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/6">A. C. Michael</a>. 12,500 copies issued. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Daly, Nicholas. "That Obscure Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy." <span style="font-style:italic;">NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction</span> 28.1 (1994): 24-51. <span style="font-style:italic;">Jstor</span>. Web. 2 June 2010.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F33, 48-49. Print.</p>
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The Yellow God
Haggard's romance The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa concerns a lost race governed by the Priestess-Queen Asika. The wicked queen takes a new husband every year and keeps the mummified corpses of her lovers in a treasure house. Literary critic Nicholas Daly calls YG "a more openly misogynistic retelling of She" (41). Cupples and Leon Co., New York, published the first US edition in 1908 which featured three illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Cassell and Co., London, published the first UK edition on 5 March 1909, illustrated with three full-page illustrations by A. C. Michael. 12,500 copies issued.
Further Reading
Daly, Nicholas. "That Obscure Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28.1 (1994): 24-51. Jstor. Web. 2 June 2010.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F33, 48-49. Print.
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The priestess held her lamp before its face
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Only their chief, a great yellow-toothed fellow who wore a necklace of baboon claws, remained
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And lifted the great curved knife, taking aim at the naked breast
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Jeekie... began to execute a kind of war dance
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With a spring like that of a tiger Jeekie was on Aylward.
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