Baroness Albert d' Anethan

Born in 1860 into the Haggard family, she was one of the children of William Haggard and Ella Doveton Haggard. Several of her siblings became writers, including H. Rider Haggard, and she later married Baron Albert d'Anethan, a Belgian diplomat.

She is chiefly known for Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan (1912), drawn from her years in Japan between 1893 and 1906 while her husband served as the Belgian minister. The book records social life, politics, ceremonies, and cross-cultural encounters during the late Meiji period, making it a valuable first-person account of the era.

Because she spent many years at the center of Tokyo's diplomatic society, her memoir stands out for its long, detailed perspective and for the access it gives to both European and Japanese elite circles. Sources consulted agree on her death year as 1935, though some catalog records appear to differ on her exact birth year; the 1860 date is commonly used.