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Classical Shindig (Hardcover)
Michael Harold, Quinn Peeper; Foreword by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Flora Fraser
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The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed
catastrophically and Scotland is reeling in the devastating
aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Far to the west, on an island
in the Outer Hebrides, twenty-four-year-old Flora Macdonald is
woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence.
Bonnie Prince Charlie is outside, begging for her help. With
Flora's assistance, the Stuart prince is disguised as an Irish maid
and smuggled to the Isle of Skye, evading government troops.
Flora’s bravery and determination will see her immortalised in
ballads and proclaimed a Scottish heroine. But her efforts also
result in her capture and detention in London. Released the
following year and returning to Skye, Flora goes on to marry and
emigrate to North Carolina, only then to be caught up in the
American Revolutionary War. In Pretty Young Rebel, award-winning
biographer Flora Fraser tells the remarkable story of Flora
Macdonald. It is a tale of adventure and daring, wit and charm,
struggle and survival, and of a woman who showed extraordinary
courage in the face of great danger.
When the Prince Regent (who would later become King George IV)
separated privately from Princess Caroline in 1796, they had been
together for less than a year. Their disastrous marriage, ridiculed
by the satirists of the day, led to profound political consequences
and the eventual trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. After her
exile, Caroline traveled through Europe with her own court, with
catastrophic results, eventually returning to England but still
lacking the dignity of her station. With careful research and an
eye to the parallels in the modern era, acclaimed biographer Flora
Fraser crafts in The Unruly Queen a riveting portrait of a woman
who, despite her persecution, refused to be victimized.
From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countryside
blacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of naval
hero Admiral Nelson, England's most famous native son. She served
as model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe's most renowned
artists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court of
Naples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, penniless
and alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps the
spectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beauty
Emma, Lady Hamilton--as she came to be called--a woman of abundant
affection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity was
rivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal.
Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to
life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics, passions, and
enchantments of her day.
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