Why or how it came to be called She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed he could not remember." Haggard wrote that "the title "She"" was taken "from a certain rag doll, so named, which a nurse at Bradenham used to bring out of some dark recess in order to terrify those of my brothers and sisters who were in her charge." In his autobiography, Haggard spoke of how he composed "She" within a six-week period of February and March 1886, having just completed "Jess", which was published in 1887. Haggard claimed that this period was an intensely creative moment: the text "was never rewritten, and the manuscript carries but few corrections". Haggard went on to declare: "The fact is that it was written at white heat, almost without rest, and that is the best way to compose." He admitted to having had no clear story in mind when he began writing:  Various scholars have detected a number of analogues to "She" in earlier literature. According to Brantlinger, Haggard certainly read and was aware of the stories of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in particular "A Strange Story" (1862) which includes a mysterious, veiled woman called "Ayesha", and "The Coming Race" (1871) about the discovery of a subterranean civilisation. Similarly, the name of the underground civilisation in "She", known as Kôr, is derived from Norse mythological romance, where the "deathbed" of the goddess Hel is called Kör and means "disease" in Old Norse. In "She", a plague destroyed the original inhabitants of Kôr. According to Haggard, he wrote the final scene of Ayesha's demise while waiting for his literary agent, A. P. Watt, to return to his offices. Upon completion, he entered Watt's office and threw the manuscript "...on the table with the remark: 'There is what I shall be remembered by'". An obscure reference to "She" appears in Lieut. George Witton's 1907 book, "Scapegoats of the Empire; The True Story of the Bushveldt Carbineers":  "She" was first published as a serial story in the "Graphic", a large folio magazine printed weekly in London, between October 1886 and January 1887. The serialisation was accompanied with illustrations by E. K. Johnson. An American edition was published by Harper and Bros. in New York on 24 December 1886; this included the Johnson illustrations.