Flora Macdonald "pretty young rebel" : her life and story
"A biography of Flora MacDonald, the woman who aided "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and inspired the "Skye Boat Song" "--
| Main Author: | Fraser, Flora (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2023.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Flora Macdonald; Flora Fraser
- A fugitive prince : 1745-1746
- Ill met by moonlight : June 1746
- 'Great fears' : June 1746
- 'A man in a woman's dress' : June 1746
- 'Farewell to the lad' : July 1746
- Prisoner on the furnace : July-August 1746
- 'The famous Miss Flora Macdonald' : August-December 1746
- High treason : January-July 1747
- A Jacobite dowry : August 1747 -April 1751
- Married life : April 1751- 1770
- 'We have hardly what will pay our creditors' : 1771-1774
- Cheek's Creek, North Carolina : 1774-April 1775
- 'King and country' : April-June 1775
- 'All killed or taken' : July 1775 -February 1776
- 'Almost starved with cold to death' : February 1776-December 1779
- 'All possible speed to the Highlands' : 1780-1785
- Royal pensioner : 1785-March 1790
- 'Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing' : the story.