InLysbeth (1901), H. Rider Haggard, recounts an inspiring story of love, faith, and hardship. Lysbeth, a young sixteenth-century Dutch woman, is forced to endure the tribulations of the Spanish occupation of her homeland and the terrors of the Inquisition. The momentous events of her life unfold against the turbulent backdrop of the struggle for Dutch independence, led by William the Silent.

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomons Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.