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The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong

Label
The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-397)
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
144602158
Responsibility statement
Sally Armstrong
Summary
Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family's black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte's lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would find refuge with the Mi'kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor's great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers living history with all the drama and sweep of a novel
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