This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in every good gothic novel, Louisa's father died, and having been deserted by her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle in his early Tudor manor in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight years later she left England to salvage her inheritance,
a journey which took her to the Bahamas, and then to South Carolina.
On her return to England she married a dashing naval officer, with whom she had ten children. Her affairs were much commented on at the time by relations and friends: we can occasionally be privy to the chaos around her dining table, or her distress at the death of one of her children. She had another traumatic adventure on the Atlantic at the age of thirty-five, when her ship was captured by French privateers.
Over the years, despite her best endeavours, her fortune was demolished by the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, corrupt lawyers, fraudulent deeds, a spendthrift husband and profligate son.
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Verlagsort
Illustrationen
30 colour and 5 b&w illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 152 mm
Breite: 219 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-85398-202-6 (9781853982026)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kishanda Fulford was born in 1960, in East Africa where her father was a District Commissioner. She is named after a beautiful rift valley where her parents camped on a hunting expedition. When Tanganyika obtained independence the family returned to England. She had a chequered educational career which included stays of various lengths at girls' boarding schools before her father, finally losing patience, sent her to the local state school.
After leaving school she became an itinerant journalist whilst also working for two of the most well-known auction houses in London. In 1991, after a lightning romance, she married Francis Fulford andbecame chatelaine of Great Fulford, a large rambling, mainly Tudor, manor that has been in the family for eight hundred years. She has four children.
1. The Sovereign Lords Proprietors
2. Tell Mamma
3. Spurious Issue
4. Blue Gold
5. Mournful Event
6. It is all Over
7. Perfectly Fruitless
8. Hands of Kings
9. Our Little Queen
10. A Stranger in My Native Land
11. A Poor Match
12. Disallowed
13. 'Artillery of tears'
14. Cargo of Rice
15. Captured
16. Joy to Agony
17. Dark Scene
18. Upon Velvet
19. Corrupt Jobs
20. Trammels of Debt
21. Impossible
22. Forgery
23. Verses on the Cat
24. Heap of Dust
Epilogue
Postscript - The Yellow Portrait
Acknowledgments
Family Trees
Select Bibliography
