{{short description|1907 novel by H. Rider Haggard}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = Fair Margaret | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:FairMargaretHaggard.jpg | caption = 1923 edition | author = H. Rider Haggard | illustrator = J. R. Skelton | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Hutchinson | release_date = 1907 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | oclc= | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Fair Margaret''''' (published in the United States as ''Margaret'') is a 1907 novel by British writer H. Rider Haggard, set in the time of Henry VII of England.<ref name="twn">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128283209 |title="Fair Margaret" (Rider Haggard). |newspaper=The World's News |location=Sydney |date=26 October 1907 |access-date=20 December 2013 |page=30 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56480156 |title=RIDER HAGGARD COINCIDENCE. |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=9 December 1907 |access-date=20 December 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="ftc">(p. 408-9)</ref> The plot features the abduction of the titular heroine and her adventures in Spain, including a meeting with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.<ref name="twn" />
==Reception== Reviewing the novel, Frederic Taber Cooper praised ''Margaret''. Cooper stated: "Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager, and thanks to his gorgeous scenery, his thronging troops of soldiers, sailors, courtiers, black-robed inquisitors, and languishing Spanish maids, he brings his story to a triumphant and happy solution, and sends us away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show that was eminently worth while."<ref>Frederic Taber Cooper, "The Economies of Structure and Some Recent Books." ''The Bookman'', December 1907, (pp. 408-409)</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9780 Complete book] at Project Gutenberg * {{librivox book | title=Fair Margaret | author=H. Rider HAGGARD}}
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Category:Novels by H. Rider Haggard Category:1907 British novels Category:1907 English-language novels Category:English historical novels Category:Cultural depictions of Isabella I of Castile
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