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The Spite of Fortune - The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress (Hardcover)
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The Spite of Fortune - The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress (Hardcover)
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This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale
could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the
age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress
inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in
every good gothic novel, Louisa's father died, and having been
deserted by her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle in
his early Tudor manor in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight
years later she left England to salvage her inheritance, a journey
which took her to the Bahamas, and then to South Carolina. On her
return to England she married a dashing naval officer, with whom
she had ten children. Her affairs were much commented on at the
time by relations and friends: we can occasionally be privy to the
chaos around her dining table, or her distress at the death of one
of her children. She had another traumatic adventure on the
Atlantic at the age of thirty-five, when her ship was captured by
French privateers. Over the years, despite her best endeavours, her
fortune was demolished by the American Revolution, the Napoleonic
Wars, corrupt lawyers, fraudulent deeds, a spendthrift husband and
profligate son.
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