British papers and pamphleteers covered her eventual release under the Act of Indemnity in 1747, taking inspiration from MacDonald’s journey to write novels, poems, and music like " The Skye Boat Song.” Soon after, she was arrested by British military forces, who charged the “pretty young rebel” for treason and brought her to London. Fraser asks, what did she, a Jacobite heroine, have to do with the American Revolution?Īt only 24 years old, after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, MacDonald was a key player in a larger strategy to rescue the defeated Prince Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie” Prince Charlie), taking him by boat to find refuge from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to a place of safety on the Isle of Skye. Revisiting Flora MacDonald’s fame with new research on her family history, memory in popular culture, shifting social status, and Presbyterian values, author Flora Fraser’s new biography, Flora Macdonald: “Pretty Young Rebel”: Her Life and Story, presents what was legendary - and revolutionary - about MacDonald’s everyday life on both sides of the Atlantic.
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