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The Cactus and the Crown
The Cactus and the Crown
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A VIVID AND DRAMATIC STORY OF LOVE, CONFLICT AND REBELLION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MEXICO

In the late 1860’s the royal families of Europe collaborated with the French in an ingenious plan to take over Mexico. They set up Maximilian von Hapsburg and his wife Carlóta as the Emperor and Empress of Mexico. In accepting this crown Maximilian bowed to the ambitions of his wife, a disturbed yet disturbingly beautiful woman. Unfortunately Maximilian was inept as a ruler and the whole adventure ended in disaster as the people of Mexico, led by Juarez, rose to overthrow him.

Told against a background of imperial splendour and ever increasing tension, this novel has three themes—the making of a girl into a woman, the making of a man into a doctor, and the making of a nation—developed through the stories of two young Americans, Dr. Andrew Lorimer and his sister Sally, and Pierre Franchet, a soldier in the French Expeditionary Corps.

The Cactus and the Crown, which was first published in 1962, is an exceptionally well-researched historical novel from Catherine Gavin, set during the beginnings of the Mexican nation, when Maximilian was Emperor and the guerrilla forces of Benito Juarez were fighting against French troops.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPapamoa Press
Release dateJan 13, 2019
ISBN9781789123616
The Cactus and the Crown
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Catherine Gavin

Catherine Irvine Gavin (1907-2000) was a Scottish academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist. She was born in Aberdeen in 1907 and studied history and English at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with first-class honours. After obtaining a doctorate on Louis Philippe of France in 1931, she took up positions as a history lecturer at Aberdeen and at the University of Glasgow. She stood as a Unionist candidate in two parliamentary elections in the 1930s, but without success. During World War II, she worked in France and the Netherlands for Kemsley Newspapers. After the war, she married American advertising executive John Ashcraft and moved to the United States with him. They were together until his death in 1998. Spanning a writing career of seven decades, Catherine Gavin authored many historical novels, including: Clyde Valley (1938), The Hostile Shore (1940), The Black Milestone (1941), The Mountain of Light (1944), Madeleine (1957), The Fortress (1964), The Moon Into Blood (1966), The Devil in Harbour (1968), The House of War (1970), Give Me the Daggers (1972), The Snow Mountain (1973), Traitors’ Gate (1976), How Sleep the Brave (1980), The Sunset Dream (1984), A Light Woman (1986), A Dawn of Splendour (1989), and The French Fortune (1991). The University of Aberdeen awarded her an honorary D.Litt. in 1986. The Catherine Gavin Room there was named in her honour. The university also has a 1940 portrait of her, in oil, by Elizabeth Mary Watt. Catherine Gavin died in 2000, aged 92.

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