Mary of Marion Isle

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{{short description|1929 novel by H. Rider Haggard}}

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| author = H. Rider Haggard

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| cover_artist = Frank Peers

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| language = English

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| publisher = Hutchinson & Co (UK)
Doubleday Doran (US)

| release_date = 1929

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Mary of Marion Isle is a 1929 novel by H Rider Haggard. It was his penultimate novel and was published posthumously.[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/2nd-february-1929/28/mary-of-marion-isle-by-h-rider-haggard-hutchinson- Review in the Spectator] accessed 21 December 2013{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90887062 |title=Novels Reviewed. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=29 June 1933 |accessdate=21 December 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Haggard originally came up with the idea for the novel in 1916 while travelling on a ship from South Africa to Australia and glancing at the islands they passed on the way there.{{Cite book|last=Higgins|first=D.S.|title=Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller|publisher=Cassell|year=1981|isbn=0304308277|location=London|pages=226}}