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Jess - A Novel of the First Boer War - cover

Jess - A Novel of the First Boer War

H. Rider Haggard

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

The Transvaal, 1880: two English sisters on a Transvaal farm, an English officer both love, and then the war — the siege of Pretoria, a ride through the enemy lines, and a choice made by the sister nobody expected. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and the war that followed; he wrote this in 1887, and the Boers in it are neither villains nor comedy, which was rare enough in England to be noticed.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 328 pages.

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