"Dawn" by H. Rider Haggard is a novel published in 1884. Haggard's first novel began with a chance encounter: a glimpse of a beautiful young woman in church inspired him to create a heroine named Angela. Written while studying for the Bar, the manuscript went through multiple drafts and titles before finding a publisher. Though Haggard later felt it contained too many "amateur villains" and earned him only ten pounds initially, the novel eventually achieved extraordinary success in later years. (This is an automatically generated summary.)