The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

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The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
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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 familyâ€™s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotteâ€™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 Miâ€™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.

Excerpt from from The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor:

â€œEvery summer of my youth, we would travel from the family cottage at Youghall Beach to visit my motherâ€™s extended clan in Tabusintac near the Miramichi River. And at every gathering, just as much as there would be chickens to chase and newly cut hay to leap in, so there would be an ample serving of stories about Charlotte Taylor. . .

She was a woman with a â€œpast.â€ The potboilers about her ran like serials from summer to summer, at weddings and funerals and whenever the clan came together. She wasnâ€™t exactly presented as a gentlewoman, although it was said that she came from an aristocratic family in England. Nor was there much that seemed genteel about the person they always referred to as â€œold Charlotte.â€ Words like â€œloverâ€ and â€œland grabberâ€ drifted down from the supper table to where we kids sat on the floor. There were whoops of laughter at her indiscretions, followed by sideways glances at us. But for all the stories passed around, it was clear the family still had a powerful respect for a woman long dead. We owed our very existence to her, and the anecdotes the older generation told suggested that their own fortitude and guile were family traits passed down from the ancestral matriarch. For as long as I can remember, Iâ€™ve tried to imagine the real life Charlotte Taylor lived and, more, how she ever survived.â€
Country USA
Brand Vintage Canada
Manufacturer Vintage Canada
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2008-02-12
UnitCount 1
Format International Edition
EANs 9780679314059

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage Canada
Manufacturer	Vintage Canada
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2008-02-12
UnitCount	1
Format	International Edition
EANs	9780679314059

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

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