Lysbeth

Lysbeth by H. Rider Haggard is a historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. "In the case of "Lysbeth" the author has attempted this second method. By an example of the trials, adventures, and victories of a burgher family of the generation of Philip II. and William the Silent, he strives to set before readers of to-day something of the life of those who lived through perhaps the most fearful tyranny that the western world has known. How did they live, one wonders; how is it that they did not die of very terror, those of them who escaped the scaffold, the famine and the pestilence?"