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Download or read book FLORA MACDONALD A HISTORY written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flora MacDonald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228009898
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Flora! written by Flora MacDonald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a path for women in Parliament. She won international acclaim for bringing 60,000 Vietnamese refugees to Canada, and for engineering the rescue of six American hostages in Tehran in a top-secret collaboration with the CIA known as the Canadian Caper. She exposed the inhumane treatment of inmates at Kingston’s Prison for Women. She defied male chauvinists in the Progressive Conservative party by running for its leadership, and she introduced the Employment Equity Act to guarantee women equal access to federal jobs. Flora was brave. She was relentless. She was controversial. She was a force of nature. In her own words and drawing from interviews with those who knew her, Flora! grants us insight into this exceptional woman who changed the course of history.
Author : Ruairidh H. MacLeod
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Flora MacDonald written by Ruairidh H. MacLeod and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is immortalised because of her part in the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', in 1746, but little is known about the rest of her life. Ruairidh H. MacLeod draws on original, unpublished material in Britain and North America to give a full account of one of the most romantic figures in Scottish history. She was no shy young girl, but a resolute woman of 24 who played a courageous part in rescuing the Prince from his enemies. When arrested, she did all she could to protect others who helped the Prince escape, and displayed a maturity that astonished her admirers and won her many friends.
Author : Flora Macdonald Mayor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Third Miss Symons written by Flora Macdonald Mayor and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Macgregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald, and Her Adventures with Prince Charles written by Alexander Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mollie Hunter
Publisher : Pavilion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780416062120
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie written by Mollie Hunter and published by Pavilion Children's Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series based on original sources of traditional stories and legends of the world, this tale of Flora MacDonald and Bonny Prince Charlie is retold and illustrated in a style appropriate to the atmosphere of the story.
Author : F. M. Mayor
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644312
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Rector's Daughter written by F. M. Mayor and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.
Author : Jacqueline Riding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608198049
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Jacobites written by Jacqueline Riding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his quixotic attempt to regain the throne of England. The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James II) crown--remains the stuff of legend: the hunted fugitive, Flora MacDonald, and the dramatic escape over the sea to the Isle of Skye. But the full story--the real history--is even more dramatic, captivating, and revelatory. Much more than a single rebellion, the events of 1745 were part of an ongoing civil war that threatened to destabilize the British nation and its empire. The Bonnie Prince and his army alone, which included a large contingent of Scottish highlanders, could not have posed a great threat. But with the involvement of Britain's perennial enemy, Catholic France, it was a far more dangerous and potentially catastrophic situation for the British crown. With encouragement and support from Louis XV, Charles's triumphant Jacobite army advanced all the way to Derby, a mere 120 miles from London, before a series of missteps ultimately doomed the rebellion to crushing defeat and annihilation at Culloden in April 1746--the last battle ever fought on British soil. Jacqueline Riding conveys the full weight of these monumental years of English and Scottish history as the future course of Great Britain as a united nation was irreversibly altered.
Author : Janet Macleod Trotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750543002
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Jacobite Lass written by Janet Macleod Trotter and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a remote and windswept Scottish island, the free-spirited Scottish heroine, Flora MacDonald, enjoys a childhood roaming her father's cattle farm. But when her father dies suddenly, Flora and her mother, Marion are plunged into poverty. It seems Flora is destined for a life of skivvying, until a dashing soldier sweeps Marion off her feet. Then everything is thrown into turmoil once more when the exiled Prince Charles Stuart lands on the Outer Isles which ignites the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Scotland is plunged into bloody civil war; families and clans are torn apart in their loyalties and Flora's fate is changed forever.
Author : Maggie Craig
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572964
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Damn' Rebel Bitches written by Maggie Craig and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historians have ignored female participation in the '45: this book aims to redress the balance. Drawn from many original documents and letters, the stories that emerge of the women - and their men - are often touching, occasionally light-hearted and always engrossing.
Author : Alan Gold
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1631580582
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Pretender's Lady written by Alan Gold and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America and her lasting legacy. In the page-turning popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretender’s Lady, Alan Gold’s meticulously researched novel, accurately opens history’s pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today—Flora MacDonald. She was the most famous Scotswoman of her day, single handedly saving Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is her fictionalized life story—her relations with the Prince, her flight to America, Ben Franklin’s influence, and her return to Britain to lobby for peace But what’s hidden from history, revealed now for the first time in Gold’s dazzling new work of fiction, is the result of Flora’s and Charlie’s love: a beautiful and talented boy raised on an American farm. But only she knows his true heritage and his claim to the world’s greatest throne. And only the genius of Ben Franklin understands how to use this naïve boy to change the history of America. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832569
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Beloved Emma written by Flora Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times 'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
Author : Flora Macdonald Spencer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Evan Macdonald written by Flora Macdonald Spencer and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A master draughtsman, artist Evan Macdonald had extraordinary facility as a painter - in oil, acrylic, tempera, and watercolour - as well as a printmaker (particularly in drypoint and mezzotint) and a book illustrator. This beautifully illustrated book chronicles Macdonald's life and work from the perspective of the artist's daughter, Flora Macdonald Spencer, whose insightful essay creates a lasting image of a great Canadian artist." "Literally hundreds of his streetscapes, landscapes, portraits, and drawings survive today in private collections across Canada. At the end of his life, Macdonald was bestowed an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Guelph, an acknowledgement of his artistic legacy. The painter's life is richly documented by Flora Macdonald Spencer in her poignant telling of his journey."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Flora MacDonald
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341717652
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Mary Melville, the Psychic written by Flora MacDonald and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307277933
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire written by Flora Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations. Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, and her rumored incestuous relationship with her brother, the Emperor Napoleon—the only man to whom she was loyal. When Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to follow him there, and after the final defeat at Waterloo she begged to join him at Saint Helena. In Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire, Flora Fraser casts new light on the Napoleonic era and crafts a dynamic, vivid portrait of a mesmerizing woman.
Author : David MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899874385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)
Download or read book A Wee Guide to Flora MacDonald written by David MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora MacDonald is one of the heroes of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-6. Putting herself into great danger, she helped Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was disguised as her maid Betty Burke, flee from the outer isles to Skye when being hunted by the brutal g
Author : Inglis Fletcher
Publisher : Queens House, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780892440085
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Scotswoman written by Inglis Fletcher and published by Queens House, Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
