Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
Autor Flora Fraseren Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2023
În miezul unei nopți din 1746, pe o insulă izolată din Hebridele Exterioare, o tânără de douăzeci și patru de ani este trezită de un mesaj care avea să îi schimbe destinul și să o transforme într-o legendă a folclorului scoțian. La ușa ei se afla „Bonnie” Prince Charlie, pretendentul Stuart aflat pe fugă după dezastrul de la Culloden, cerșind ajutor. Din această perspectivă intimă și urgentă, Flora Fraser construiește o biografie care depășește granițele mitului, oferindu-ne un portret vibrant al unei femei a cărei curaj a fost depășit doar de pragmatismul său în fața pericolelor.
Reținem modul în care Fraser, numită chiar după subiectul cărții sale, reușește să mențină un ritm alert, purtându-ne din aerul sărat al insulei Skye până în mlaștinile Americii de Nord. Ca și The Two Lives of Flora MacDonald de Alexander Macgregor, această biografie transformă documentele de arhivă într-o narațiune cinematică, însă Fraser aduce o profunzime psihologică superioară, explorând nu doar eroismul tinereții, ci și luptele ulterioare din timpul Războiului Revoluționar American. Subliniem faptul că Pretty Young Rebel nu este doar o cronică a rebeliunii iacobite, ci o explorare a supraviețuirii feminine într-o lume dominată de conflicte politice masculine.
Această lucrare se înscrie perfect în linia preocupărilor biografice ale autoarei. Dacă în George & Martha Washington Fraser analiza dinamica puterii într-un mariaj istoric, iar în The Unruly Queen explora spiritul rebel al reginei Caroline, aici ea rafinează aceste teme. Stilul este elegant și plin de spirit, reușind să evoce atât mizeria captivității la Londra, cât și demnitatea unei femei care a refuzat să fie o simplă notă de subsol în istoria Marii Britanii. Experiența de lectură este una imersivă, marcată de o cercetare meticuloasă care face ca „Cauza Veche” a Scoției să pară mai palpabilă ca niciodată.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1408879859
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care caută adevărul din spatele baladelor scoțiene. Flora Fraser oferă o perspectivă istorică riguroasă asupra unei figuri emblematice, transformând o eroină bidimensională într-o persoană complexă. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a impactului rebeliunii iacobite și a modului în care o singură decizie curajoasă poate ecoua de-a lungul a două continente, de la Culloden până în coloniile americane.
Despre autor
Flora Fraser, fiică a renumitei biografe Antonia Fraser și nepoată a scriitoarei Elizabeth Longford, continuă o tradiție literară de excelență în cercetarea istorică. Stabilită la Londra, ea s-a remarcat prin biografii aclamate precum Beloved Emma sau Venus of Empire. Expertiza sa în secolul al XVIII-lea a fost recunoscută internațional, lucrarea sa despre soții Washington fiind distinsă cu prestigiosul George Washington Prize. Prin Pretty Young Rebel, ea aduce o notă personală, explorând viața femeii după care a fost numită.
Descriere
'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator
'Enthralling . . . Throws us straight into the fresh air, heather, rain and midges of the Hebrides, followed by the swamps and creeks of North America . . . Full of unforgettable glimpses' The Times
The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is reeling in the devastating aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Far to the west, on an island in the Outer Hebrides, twenty-four-year-old Flora Macdonald is woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence.
Bonnie Prince Charlie is outside, begging for her help.
With Flora's assistance, the Stuart prince is disguised as an Irish maid and smuggled to the Isle of Skye, evading government troops. Flora's bravery and determination will see her immortalised in ballads and proclaimed a Scottish heroine. But her efforts also result in her capture and detention in London. Released the following year and returning to Skye, Flora goes on to marry and emigrate to North Carolina, only then to be caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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.
Recenzii
Flora Fraser's new biography stylishly updates MacDonald's story
Flora Macdonald has met her ideal biographer. Flora Fraser has a born grasp of the mists and tides of high feeling that swirl about her subject to this day. As in all her biographies, she conveys in scholarly fashion a spellbinding sense that rationality and romance are not remotely incompatible but may compose the heart of a life.
Flora Fraser unpicks the whys and wherefores of what happened, the tragic outcome of their enterprise and how Flora Macdonald's gifts as a survivor and shrewd operator came again and again to the rescue of her family . In the meticulous and deep-delving research for the hugely readable Pretty Young Rebel, Flora says she has built a picture of Flora Macdonald as sure of herself, uncowed by royalty, and egalitarian, a gracious, charming yet artful and grounded product of her island roots.
Detailed and enjoyable . This is a full and always interesting book, a rich picture of Highland society at a time of change as well as a persuasive and always pleasing account of Flora's life, a social study as well as a fine telling of a well-known tale, and of the less familiar story of the Scots who chose loyalty to the Crown in America
[Flora Macdonald's] entire life story is interesting, as Flora Fraser shows in this thoroughly researched biography . Fraser tells the story of Flora Macdonald's life very well, with sympathy, respect and understanding
[In] her well-researched and enthusiastic biography, Flora Fraser recounts Macdonald's life based on facts culled from published and archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic
This is a full and always interesting book ... a fine telling of a well-known tale
Flora Fraser, in Pretty Young Rebel, tells the story of those days well and in some detail . Fraser is keen to underline the high personal risk Flora ran throughout . [Flora Macdonald] carried out her own mission with courage, daring and, as Flora Fraser reminds us, unfaltering good sense.
This new biography by Flora Fraser (who is named after her subject) intends to sift out a 'real Flora' from the spoil heap of sentimental history . . . Nothing in this book is more fascinating that what it suggests about the concept of loyalty . . . After plenty of enterprising research in Britain and in North Carolina, Fraser makes a fresh and exciting narrative
Fraser's finely detailed and well-researched biography looks behind the legend to unveil a strong and determined woman
This is one of those lives immortalized by a single decision . the skilful historian Flora Fraser has produced a detailed, dynamic account of her namesake's colourful cameo role. It will hold surprises for anyone apart from those already utterly enveloped in the heathery Highland mists of this story . In Ms. Fraser's hands, myth becomes thrilling reality . eye-opening . Ms. Fraser has done a remarkable job of explaining the glamour of this fascinating figure without diminishing it
A riveting read ... thrilling, while based on intensive archival research as well as local knowledge and tradition ... Fraser's closely researched book not only strips away accretions and elisions, to reconstruct an iconic moment in history. She widens out the canvas to take in the marketing of memory and the creation of factoids ... masterly
A lively and highly readable study of the iconic Jacobite heroine.
This affecting history gives due credit to the real woman at the centre of a captivating legend
PRAISE FOR GEORGE & MARTHA WASHINGTON: Scrupulously researched ... Fraser paints a wonderfully detailed picture of American family life at the end of the pioneering colonial period.
Flora Fraser tells the story of a couple, a family and country with sympathy and huge skill ... She is a respectful biographer, scholarly, unshowy and unsensational
An intimate portrait of America's original power couple ... Impeccably researched and entertaining
Elegant ... Fraser mines the sources available to her to reveal the depth of her subjects' attachment to one another
Flora Fraser has provided an insightful portrait in elegant prose with a dash of wit. The book is based on a mastery of the original sources and brings to life, with much imagination, a wonderful marriage in a period of revolution and war. It is written with a light touch, but is a serious account in every respect. This is a book worthy of its subject
Vivid and detailed ... Carefully researched and clearly argued