Lilias Rider Haggard
Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard M.B.E. (9 December 1892 - 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa Margitson.[1]
She was educated at Saint Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk and was awarded an MBE for her work as an auxiliary nurse during World War I.[1] She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected President of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild.[1]
She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left. Her book Norfolk Life, based on columns she wrote for the Eastern Daily Press, contains an introduction by Henry Williamson.
She is buried at Ditchingham, Norfolk[2] and is the subject of a 2015 biography by Victoria Manthorpe.[3]
Books
- I Walked by Night, editor (1935)
- The Rabbit Skin Cap, editor (1939)
- Norfolk Life (1943)
- A Norfolk Notebook (1947)
- A Country Scrapbook (1950)
- The Cloak That I Left (1951)
- Too Late for Tears (1969)
References
- 1 2 3 Dawson Haggard D.,The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899 (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2015-12-07. on October 3, 2010
- ↑ Literary Norfolk (2007) - retrieved online at http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/ditchingham.htm on October 3, 2010
- ↑ Manthorpe, V., Lilias Rider Haggard: Countrywoman (Poppyland Publishing, 2015)