![]() ![]() I enjoyed learning this meticulously researched history that ultimately helped shape the British Empire. ![]() She also paints fascinating word-pictures describing settings and characters. I referred often to the glossary of eighteenth-century Scottish terms at the beginning of the book. She’s a lover of words, especially ancient colloquialisms, and she uses them well. ![]() This is the second novel I’ve read by Laura Frantz. Not an Englishwoman.” Haha! What will happen between these two opposites–a refined English rose forced to take refuge with this wild Scotch thistle? The fathers scheme for their heirs to marry, but Everard wants nothing of it. Her father sends her to the safest place he can–Protestant supporters of the king who are family friends in a castle in Scotland.įriendship trumps politics and religion, at least in this case. ![]() The Stuarts fled to France, but Catholic Jacobites in Scotland and northern England rose up to fight.īlythe’s life is in danger, as the devout Catholic daughter of an activist Jacobite Duke of Northumbria. The Jacobite Catholic Stuart clan had been ousted in favor of a Hanoverian Protestant King–a foreigner who spoke German rather than English. The Rose and the Thistle is an intriguing romantic fiction of Scotch and English history in 1715. ![]()
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