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Pretty Young Rebel - Full Interview. In Pretty Young Rebel, award-winning biographer Flora Fraser tells the remarkable story of Flora Macdonald. It's 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. Why We Still Talk about Flora MacDonald Today ...
5 de dic. de 2023 · Flora Macdonald. (1722-1790), Jacobite heroine. Sitter in 8 portraits. The daughter of an Outer Hebrides farmer, Flora Macdonald met Prince Charles Edward Stuart as he fled the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Flora helped him escape by boat to the Isle of Skye by disguising him as her maidservant. She was subsequently arrested and brought to London ...
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. Please ask your local bookshop or bookseller to stock this book.
Flora, born in 1722, was the daughter of a tacksman, a substantial tenant, of the chief, MacDonald of Clanranald, and therefore a member of a staunchly Jacobite clan. On his death, her mother married a MacDonald of Sleat from Skye, and Lady Clanranald herself effectively adopted Flora.
Flora MacDonald ( Gaelic: Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill ); (1722 – 5 March 1790) wis a memmer o the Macdonalds o Sleat, that gied help tae Charles Edward Stuart tae evade govrenment sodgers efter the Battle o Culloden in Apryle 1746. Her faimily supportit the govrenment durin the 1745 Rising an Flora later claimt tae hiv assistit Charles oot o ...
22 de dic. de 2022 · In traditional narratives Flora Macdonald is often depicted as a humble peasant girl, but she was actually a cultured young woman from an influential family on the Outer Hebrides. In 1746, as Government forces scoured the Hebrides in search of Prince Charles Edward, Flora helped the fugitive leader to reach Skye, disguised as her Irish maid, Betty Burke.
Flora MacDonald married her kinsman, Allan MacDonald of Kingsburgh, in 1750. They farmed at Flodigarry, Skye, until financial difficulties forced them to emigrate to North Carolina, USA, in 1774. They travelled with three of their seven children, as well as their son-in-law and two young grandchildren.
