The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

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goodread review: **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 family’s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte’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 Mi’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.'' **Charlotte Taylor's story is what you might get if you crossed Susanna Moodie and Jack Aubrey --- a delicious character and a great yarn.** Sally Armstrong has imagined an ancestor who possesses all the passion and daring that she herself has in abundance, and by the time we had finished our journey together through the trials and turbulence and the terrible beauty of the early days on the Miramichi, I wanted to claim Charlotte as my Ancestor, too.**---Mary Lou Finlay, Broadcaster and Former host of CBC Radio's ''As It Happens.''---back cover**

subjects: The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor,  Sally Armstrong,  2007,  Biography,  Biographical fiction,  Historical fiction,  Bibliographical references,  Charlotte Taylor,  British,  Women immigrants,  Journalists, biography,  Fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life

People: Charlotte Taylor (b. 1754 or 5)

Places: Miramichi River Valley,  Miramichi River Valley (N.B.),  New Brunswick

Times: 1774-1840