Mary of Marion Isle

In the adventure Mary of Marion Isle, London physician Andrew West is shipwrecked on Marion Island during a voyage to accept the post of Governor-General of Oceania. There, West falls in love with Mary, a woman shipwrecked on the island for the past fifteen years. Haggard wrote MMI in 1924, although D.S. Higgins explains that the idea for this story originated during his trip to Australia in 1916 while watching the albatrosses. In fact, Haggard's diary records that he considered titling this romance The Fatal Albatross.

On 4 January 1929 Hutchinson and Co., London, published the first UK edition of MMI. Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York, published the first American edition the same year using the title Marion Isle.

Further Reading

Higgins, D.S. Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller. London: Cassell, 1981. 226. Print.

Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F57, 73. Print.