Download or read book Flora written by Flora MacDonald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a path for women in Parliament. She won international acclaim for bringing 60,000 Vietnamese refugees to Canada, and for engineering the rescue of six American hostages in Tehran in a top-secret collaboration with the CIA known as the Canadian Caper. She exposed the inhumane treatment of inmates at Kingston’s Prison for Women. She defied male chauvinists in the Progressive Conservative party by running for its leadership, and she introduced the Employment Equity Act to guarantee women equal access to federal jobs. Flora was brave. She was relentless. She was controversial. She was a force of nature. In her own words and drawing from interviews with those who knew her, Flora! grants us insight into this exceptional woman who changed the course of history.
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald With a Memoir of the Author by Alexander Mackenzie written by Alexander MACGREGOR (M.A., of West Church, Inverness.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald and Her Adventures with Prince Charles written by Alexander Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora MacDonald written by Ruairidh H. MacLeod and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is immortalised because of her part in the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', in 1746, but little is known about the rest of her life. Ruairidh H. MacLeod draws on original, unpublished material in Britain and North America to give a full account of one of the most romantic figures in Scottish history. She was no shy young girl, but a resolute woman of 24 who played a courageous part in rescuing the Prince from his enemies. When arrested, she did all she could to protect others who helped the Prince escape, and displayed a maturity that astonished her admirers and won her many friends.
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald and Her Adventures with Prince Charles With a Life of the Author and an Appendix Giving the Descendents of the Famous Heroine written by Macgregor Alexander and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Flora MacDonald in America written by John Patterson MacLean and published by Lumberton, N.C. : A.W. McLean. This book was released on 1909 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald written by Alexander Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald Also Flora Macdonald in Uist by William Jolly Fifth Edition With Plates Including Portraits written by Alexander MACGREGOR (M.A., of West Church, Inverness.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora Macdonald Pretty Young Rebel written by Flora Fraser and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating biography of the remarkable young Scotswoman whose bold decision to help “Bonnie” Prince Charlie—the Stuart claimant to the British throne—evade capture and flee the country has become the stuff of legend. After his decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Prince Charles Edward Stuart was a man on the run. Seeking refuge in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to escape to France, he found an unlikely ally in Flora MacDonald, a young woman in her early twenties, loyal to the Stuarts. Disguising the prince as an Irish maid, petticoats and all, Flora conveyed Charles by boat to Skye, where they lodged safely with her family, until the prince’s inexpert handling of feminine attire caused concern, and he was persuaded to forgo the ruse before fleeing the area undetected. Flora never saw him again. This famous incident led to Flora’s enduring appeal as a courageous Scottish heroine, inspiring and influencing countless novels, poems, and songs—most notably, the classic ballad “Skye Boat Song” adapted from a traditional tune in the late nineteenth century. But her remarkable life didn’t come to a close with her clandestine mission to Skye. Faced with a confession from one of the boatmen, Flora was arrested and taken to London on charges of treason, where under interrogation, she wittily deflected questions and staunchly defended her motives. She was eventually released under the 1747 Act of Indemnity, but disaster would befall her yet again: in 1774, Flora and her husband, Allan MacDonald, fled the impoverished highlands for a brighter future in Cross Creek, North Carolina—utterly unaware of the burgeoning revolution that would upend their lives there, with Allan imprisoned and Flora fleeing, penniless, back home to the Hebrides. In this probing, evocative portrait of a tumultuous life, master historian Flora Fraser peels away the layers of misinformation, legend, and myth to reveal Flora MacDonald in full. Fraser presents a fascinating picture of this headstrong and irrepressible woman. As Samuel Johnson declared upon visiting her in Scotland, her name was “a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honor.”
Download or read book The Life of Flora MacDonald written by Alexander Macgregor and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Flora MacDonald in America written by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Life of Flora MacDonald and Her Adventures with Prince Charles written by Alexander MacKenzie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Flora Macdonald, and Her Adventures With Prince Charles: With a Life of the Author, and an Appendix Giving the Descendents of the Famous Heroine Her Life by her grand-daughter, Mrs. Wylde, is admittedly a romance in which fiction predominates and the general reader is quite unable to separate the fiction from the facts. The Rev. Author of this narrative had opportunities of Obtaining information which enabled him to make the work peculiarly valuable and interesting and our only regret in connection with it is, that he did not survive to see it through the press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with prince Charles ed with a life of the author by A Mackenzie written by Alexander MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life of Flora Macdonald and Her Adventures with Prince Charles written by Alexander Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Woman Nobly Planned written by John J. Toffey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora MacDonald is one of Scotland's leading ladies of legend. Her ten-day adventure with charismatic Bonnie Prince Charlie in June 1746 and her consequent confinement at Leith and in London brought her instant and lasting fame. Fame did not bring fortune, however. At fifty-two, Flora, with her husband and some of her family, left Scotland for better times in North Carolina. Instead, she and her family were caught up on the losing side of the American Revolution and suffered separation and hardship. In the two and a half centuries since her precipitating adventure, Flora has been mentioned in history and celebrated in legend. In the eighteenth century, Johnson praised her, London society flocked to her, and the principal portraitists of the day painted her. In the nineteenth century, Sir Walter Scott, King George IV, and Queen Victoria paid tributes to her, and her descendants built and dedicated memorials in her honor. In the twentieth century, Flora has continued to be celebrated in portrait, play, poem, song, and story; her name was given to a college, and her image has adorned marmalade jars and shortbread tins.
Download or read book Flora Macdonald written by James Alexander Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
