page_title: Wisdom's Daughter
section_title: Frame story
hierarchical_section_title: Wisdom's Daughter / Frame story
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration 13 from the Graphic magazine serialisation of H. R. Haggard's She. The picture is of She drawing back the curtain to reveal herself to Holly.
context_page_description: Wisdom's Daughter is a fantasy novel by British writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1923, by Hutchinson & Co in the UK and Doubleday, Page and Company in the US. It is the final published book in the Ayesha series but chronologically the first book in the series. Along with the other three novels in the series, Wisdom's Daughter was adapted into the 1935 film She.
context_section_description: As in the other books in the series, there is a frame story, which links the fantasy elements to their publication in the real world.
  In this case, after Holly's death, the Executor of his will decides to publish this manuscript as the fourth and final book in the series, instead of destroying it as Holly had instructed. Although, the manuscript has been partially burned, most of it is intact. The Executor doesn’t think of it as more than a work of imagination. However, before Holly's death, he was holding the Sistrum of Isis, and he was visited by a spirit of some kind, which the Executor thinks might have been She.
caption: She is so beautiful Holly can only bear to look at her veiled, from the Graphic (1886)
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