Set in Scotland, , WHITE ROSE REBEL follows the life story of Anne Farquharson-a independent and feisty Scot who recruits members of her clan for the Jacobite cause, against her husband (who joined up with the Hanoverians, for reasons this novel failed to explain sufficiently)/5. Read "White Rose Rebel" by Janet Paisley available from Rakuten Kobo. Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl – tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is thr Brand: Penguin. White Rose Rebel is historical fiction at its best. The story is based on real people and events and is about the passionate conflict between a couple caught up in civil war in Scotland. The main character, Anne Farquharson, is a wilful young woman with strong political views who marries a highland clan chief, Aeneas McIntosh, thinking he has the same opinions/5().
White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley joins Waverley by Sir Walter Scott for Homecoming as Scotland Ink celebrates 10 books whose impact was global and pairs each with a contemporary book making similar impact today. Scotland Ink list and Exhibition in Association with Publishing Scotland and SAPPHIRE. by. Janet Paisley. · Rating details · ratings · 87 reviews. White Rose Rebel tells the riveting and turbulent story of the historical figure known as Colonel Anne - Scottish heroine and female "Braveheart" - who risked everything for the love of her country and its rightful king. Anne Farquharson, a tempestuous and independent. White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley. White Rose Rebel is the story of Anne Farquharson, Lady MacIntosh. A staunch Jacobite, she raises the men of her husband's clan to fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the rising. Her husband (Aeneas), however, has indebted himself to the English and joins the government forces.
Janet Paisley Edition reviewed, Penguin, , ISBN pages. White Rose Rebel is set in the Highlands of Scotland in , at the time of the second Jacobite* Rising, and tells the story of 'Colonel' Anne Farquharson, Lady McIntosh, who raised her husband's clansmen to fight for Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie. Janet Paisley was an award winning poet, author, playwright, non-fiction and scriptwriter, writing in Scots and English. Born in in Ilford, Essex of Scottish parents, she grew up in Avonbridge, a small village in Central Scotland. Marriage, a teaching career, the birth of seven sons, the death of one, and divorce followed. This is a first-rate historical novel centering on an irresistible heroine, Colonel Anne. Janet Paisley has done an astonishing job of rescuing, and brilliantly imagining, a little-known 'real' historical figure who fought, against her husband's wishes, in the Jacobite Rebellion. Compelling, enlightening and hugely entertaining, don't miss it.
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