Wisdomʹs Daughter

Wisdomʹs Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She‑ Who‑Must‑Be‑Obeyed provides the backstory of Ayesha. In this romance, we learn of Ayesha's time in Egypt as a priestess of the goddess Isis, her meeting with Kallikrates, and her flight to Kôr. Chronologically, it is the first book in the She series followed by She (1887), Ayesha, The Return of She (1905) and She and Allan (1921).

Between March 1922 and March 1923 Hutchinson's Magazine serialized Wisdomʹs Daughter (Vols VI, VII and VIII, Nos 33 to 45). This serial included 14 illustrations by A.E. Jackson. Hutchinson and Co., London, published the first UK edition in 1923. That same year Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, published the first US edition.

Further Reading

Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 131, 148.