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Montezuma's Daughter is a historical novel by Henry Rider Haggard published in 1893. Its action takes place against the backdrop of the conquest of Mexico by Cortes, during the reign of Montezuma. The story is told on behalf of the Englishman Thomas Wingfield, who, after a series of adventures, finds himself on a Spanish expedition to the shores of New Spain, where the exotic world of the Aztecs opens before him. He marries the emperor's daughter and carries out a plan of retribution against his longtime adversary. As in other Victorian adventure novels, the natives are shown as noble savages—brutal but essentially naive barbarians. The protagonist sympathizes with the death of a civilization so unlike the European one, and sympathizes with the locals rather than the European colonists.