Write on how Haggard conveys a sense of authenticity in his narrative.
How many removes away are we from the author and the story?
Haggard (1856-1925)

Daniel Karlin: Introduction
Background on Haggard; six of 10 children from well-to-do family; not
university educated; failed army exam but picked up a position with Sir
Henry Bulwer in Natal
Published in Graphic (serialized She) and with Cassell's (responsible
for outstanding success of King Solomon's Mines)
Haggard could only produce one novel as great as She (written in 1886)
Review of textual elements
Ludwig Horace Holly is the narrator
Leo Vincey is Holly's ward
Setting: lost civilization of Kor, where Truth is worshipped
Amahagger people (reference to Author)
Image of all-powerful woman an interesting figure for Victorian fiction;
but women in Kor are also cannibals
According to Karlin, She is most parodied of all Haggard's work; it is
also the subject of a great deal of scholarly criticism

Karlin examines the role of the fictional (anonymous) narrator xxiii
Sees parallels between Holly and Frankenstein's monster
Discusses serpent figure


Anonymous Editor: in Cambridge, met Holly and Vincey, associated withHaggard

Receives Holly's manuscript in mail; here is a record of the most remarkable story you will ever hear
Vincey Sr. tells story of genealogy and mystery of Sherd (amphora)
Two sides of Sherd:
A. Genealogy and inscriptions from fathers to sons
Vincey family goes back to before Christ in Egypt
Amenartas marries Kallikrates (Beautiful in Strength) 339 b.c.
Tisisthenes, grandson of Kallikrates
"I leave the quest to my son"
Greece: Tisisthenes means avenger--translated to Vindex in Latin

Settlement of Vinceys during Roman Empire 27 BC-500 AD
France 770 AD Charlemagne
Dark Ages (Europe)
De Vincey
1044-42 Move from France to England
1000-1200Crusaders:
1445 English inscription; John de Vincey
de Vincey Senior breaks the sherd b/c it's pagan/satanic
Son puts sherd back together

1495 Parchment Translation of Black Letter
Vincey
1564 "A Most strange historie"; Elizabethan inscription
John Vincey

Sherd
1740 Misquote from Hamlet; There are more things in heaven and earth
than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio (Hamlet)
On sherd

1800's Lionel Vincey, at seventeen years of age
Vincey brewer died in 1821
Vincey dissipated the wealth 1840s
Vincey (Cambridge, Holly's friend) 1860s
Vincey Leo 1537s

B. Couplet by Dorothea Vincey; 1500s
 
I, Amenartas. .
Egypt 341 BC
Libya
Athens; she has son now

Three versions
1) Uncial Greek on sherd (type runs together) 340s B.C.
2) Holly's translation into cursive (33) 1537's
3) Vincey's translation into English  (Holly's friend) 1860's

cartouche; 340 BC

Horus, the sky-god