Flora Macdonald : "pretty young rebel" : her life and story

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After his decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Prince Charles Edward Stuart was a man on the run. Seeking refuge in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to escape to France, he found an unlikely ally in Flora MacDonald, a young woman in her early twenties, loyal to the Stuarts. Disguising the prince as an Irish maid, petticoats and all, Flora conveyed Charles by boat to Skye, where they lodged safely with her family, until the prince's inexpe...

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ISBN:

9780451494382

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xviii, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

"Pretty young rebel" : her life and story

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

LCCN:

2022006215

Control Number:

3231587

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