Allan's Wife

Allan’s Wife is an adventure novel, part of the Allan Quatermain series, by E. Rider Haggard first published in 1889.

Alan’s Wife is the story of Quartermain's early life, and his marriage to childhood sweetheart, Stella, mother of his son Harry.

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.

The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to 'spread civilization' in the 'dark continent', though he also favours native Africans having a say in their affairs. An outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable, he prefers to spend most of his life in Africa

Allan's Wife was the title story of Allan's Wife and Other Tales, a collection of Allan Quatermain stories first published in 1889. The other three stories were Hunter Quatermain's Story, A Tale of Three Lions and Long Odds.

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