Following which, she is taken prisoner and sent to London for trial. While the Clanranalds were Catholic, Flora’s maternal grandfather was known as ‘the Strong Minister’, and Flora was all her life a staunch Presbyterian.Īs a young gentlewoman on the Long Island, as the Western Isles were then known, Flora was a key player in the 1746 escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from Redcoats, or Hanoverian army officers and men, from the Uists to Skye. But I am a historical biographer, and so the book is based on documents in the Royal Archives, in the National Library of Scotland, in the British and National Libraries, in the US Library of Congress, and in other repositories.įor those unfamiliar, who is Flora Macdonald, and why is her story so significant?įlora belonged to the Macdonalds of Clanranald, and grew up on a tack, or farm, adjacent to the residence of the head of the clan and his wife, ‘Lady Clan’ on Benbecula in the Western Isles. Her life is so packed with romantic and dramatic incident. Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacdonaldĬan you tell us a little bit of what we can expect from Pretty Young Rebel?įlora’s story could well be told as a historical novel. Flora Fraser, in her biography of the young heroine, finds a woman that experienced so much more in her life. I hope they will also come away with the sense, that this was a woman who was admired and respected by all but at the same time was scrambling to negotiate the dangers and vagaries of life on two continents with few resources as best as she could.’ Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape from Scotland with the help of Flora Macdonald is one of Scotland’s most iconic stories.
‘I do hope readers will enjoy Pretty Young Rebel.
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