A Lady of the High Hills

A Lady of the High Hills PDF Author: Thomas Tisdale
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
From her birth at the palace at Versailles to her death on a South Carolina plantation, Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841) lived a life riveted by escape, adventure, grandeur, and hardship - a saga that spanned several turnultuous decades of French history and included her residence on three continents. The godchild of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and a member of the French nobility, Nathalie de Lage de Volude fled to New York at age eleven at the height of the French Revolution. She lived for eight years in the household of politician Aaron Burr and became a confidante of his daughter, Theodosia. On her return voyage to France, Delage fell in love with Thomas Sumter Jr., a diplomat to France and the son of South Carolina's Revolutionary War Gamecock. The couple enjoyed a celebrated shipboard romance, and with their subsequent marriage, Natalie Sumter entered the world of the southern planter aristocracy. A Lady of the High Hills follows the epic events that took Sumter to Brazil, back to France, and ultimately to plantation life in Stateburg, South Carolina. Thomas Tisdale describes Sumter's adjustment to life in the South Carolina backcountry, her role as the matriarch of the

A House in the High Hills

A House in the High Hills PDF Author: Selina Scott
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091914477
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
At the peak of her fast-paced career as a news presenter Selina Scott bought a house in the Tramuntana hills of Mallorca. In this written account of her Spanish years, Selina tells us about the house that captured her heart, the neighbours that became friends, and the dog that found her and changed every one of her best laid plans.

Welsh exercises

Welsh exercises PDF Author: Thomas Rowland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Welsh language
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description

Beauty of High Hills

Beauty of High Hills PDF Author: Barbara Bingley
Publisher: Pilgrims
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Nursery tales; retold.

Through England on a Side Saddle

Through England on a Side Saddle PDF Author: Celia Fiennes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326546074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Celia Fiennes is remarkable for the journeys she made, in an effort regain her health, riding through the English countryside. As well as more local journeys she made two epic tours in 1697 and 1698 travelling as far as northern England and Scotland. Travelling for it's own sake was unusual in her day, there being few roads, even more unusual for a woman to travel (only accompanied by two servants). Her accounts of her travels seem to have been written around 1702, after she had retired from travelling, and were never published within her lifetime.
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