Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard

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Written between June 5 and September 3, 1891, H. Rider Haggard's 16th novel out of an eventual 58, Montezuma's Daughter, was ultimately published in October 1893. The previous winter, Haggard and his wife Louisa had been in Mexico hunting for treasure and, on February 8th, the author had learned of the death of his 9-year-old son "Jock" back in England. The grieving father wrote Montezuma's Daughter as what his biographer D.S. Higgins calls a "therapeutic act" and, following and preceding two of the author's greatest works — 1892's "Nada the Lily" and 1894's "The People of the Mist" —demonstrates that the author, despite his bereavement, was then at the very top of his game.

Montezuma's Daughter takes the form of a memoir ... Read More