Margaret Macaulay

The Prisoner of St Kilda (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of the Unfortunate Lady Grange

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye after 13 years in exile. The daughter of a convicted murderer, Lady Grange's behaviour, such as her fondness for drink, was so outrageous that her sudden disappearance from public life was not considered surprising. But few knew the true story of her disappearance. This book reveals, for the first time, how the unfortunate lady was violently kidnapped and transported to the remote islands off the west coast of Scotland, spending seven years on the island of St. Kilda's. Condemned to a very different lifestyle than she had enjoyed in Edinburgh, and baffled by the strange tongue of the Gaelic West, she still obstinately survived, finally dying in Skye in 1745.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Luath Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910324110
• Artikelnr.: 63751218

Autorenporträt

Margaret Macaulay was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, in 1934 and educated at Campbeltown Grammar School. She graduated from Glasgow University in 1956 with an M.A. Hons. in History. She worked on The Herald as a freelance journalist, a teacher and as a bookseller.