She (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- First Published: 1887
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Voyages, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Fantasy, Shipwrecks, Egypt or Egyptians, Reincarnation, Mortality, Superman or superbeings, Fourth century, Tibet or Tibetan people
- Locales: Africa, Cambridge, England
Characters Discussed
She, also known as She-who-must-be-obeyed and as Ayesha. She is a white queen who has lived for two thousand years in the hidden city of Kor, deep in the African interior, awaiting the reincarnation of the man she loved but murdered. Trying to prove to Leo Vincey that she can make him her immortal lover, she walks into a pillar of flame and is consumed by it, though previously it had given her protection from all the ravages of age.
Leo Vincey, a young Englishman, a descendant of Kallikrates, the man She loved and killed. Following instructions in...
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