Flora Macdonald : "pretty young rebel" : her life and story /
Fraser, Flora,
Flora Macdonald : "pretty young rebel" : her life and story / Pretty young rebel Flora Fraser. - First American edition. - xviii, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-251) and index.
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.
"A biography of Flora MacDonald, the woman who aided "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and inspired the "Skye Boat Song""--
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MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790.
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 --Friends and associates.
Jacobites--Biography.
Women heroes--Scotland--Biography.
Scots--North Carolina--Biography.
Women American loyalists--North Carolina--Biography.
Scotland--History--18th century.
North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Biographies.
Flora Macdonald : "pretty young rebel" : her life and story / Pretty young rebel Flora Fraser. - First American edition. - xviii, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-251) and index.
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.
"A biography of Flora MacDonald, the woman who aided "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and inspired the "Skye Boat Song""--
9780451494382 0451494385
2022006215
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790.
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 --Friends and associates.
Jacobites--Biography.
Women heroes--Scotland--Biography.
Scots--North Carolina--Biography.
Women American loyalists--North Carolina--Biography.
Scotland--History--18th century.
North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Biographies.