Note: First published as a serial in The Long Bow from 1898-02-02 to -06-08, with illustrations by F. H. Townsend. --VisualHaggard.org Two different 1900 collections contain the story with 8 full-page illustrations by Townsend, but the number of original illustrations is unknown. The reported serial dates span 19 Wednesdays; the novel contains 17 chapters. Long Bow (or Longbow) frequency of publication is unknown here, as is the number of serial parts.

Synopsis: Elissa is an attempt, difficult enough owing to the scantiness of the material left to us by time, to recreate the life of the ancient Phoenician Zimbabwe, whose ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and, with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances such as might have brought about or accompanied its fall at the hands of the surrounding savage tribes. --Author's Note, 1900, UK (see)