Montezuma's Daughter Author:H. Rider Haggard Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set in exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his stories even though the main characters are usually European. Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a historical romance set in sixteenth-... more »century Mexico at the time Governor Diego Velasquez sent an expedition under Cortes to conquer the Mexican mainland.« less