At this time’s group overview is from Sherry.
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Sherry has been studying A Noble Crafty: The Countess Of The Tower by Patricia Bernstein.
This novel relies on and impressed by the actual life bravery of a Scottish countess in 1715. Her title was Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale. She saved her husband from sure loss of life by smuggling him out of the Tower.
The character within the e-book is Bethan Glentaggert, Countess of Clarencefield. When she was a toddler, her household fled to France with King James II (A Stuart king) when William of Orange and Queen Mary (Stuarts) took the throne. Her household was Catholic and lived in exile for a few years. She married at age 27 and moved to Scotland together with her husband. They lived fortunately for some time, having three youngsters, however ultimately, when the primary Jacobite rebel (to revive James to the throne) occurred, her husband joined in, taking lots of his tenants with him into battle.
With the rebels’ loss at Preston, her husband was taken prisoner and held within the Tower of London awaiting trial. The countess despatched her youngsters to security and traveled to London to attempt to save her husband.
We, as readers, make the journey together with her. Via a horrible winter storm. One of many worst in years. The writer did a superb job with the descriptions and the travails of the journey. A lesser lady might need given up. The countess needed to depart her companion at one level and proceed on her personal. As a modern-day lady, I can’t even think about how scary that was—first, with the climate after which when alone, worrying about cutthroats and robbers. A lady alone was very susceptible, however she persevered.
As soon as she arrives in London, she visits her husband within the Tower and will get him authorized counsel to attempt to battle the treason expenses. She additionally tries to plead to the king to let him go free. She hatches a back-up plan to attempt to save him if the authorized case doesn’t go effectively.
The e-book was filled with historic particulars and the writer did a superb job of portray the reader an image of the period. It was as if we have been there with the intrepid countess within the snow and within the Tower. The sensation of concern she felt for her husband and what would occur to him learn very actual. The one disappointment I had with the e-book was the ending. I needed extra details about what occurred when the countess joined her husband on the fruits of her courageous and daring plan. I suppose I’ll must learn one of many books within the bibliography on the finish of the novel to study extra about the actual life girl who took on the British institution.
Based mostly on the true story of Winifred Maxwell,
a Catholic in anti-Catholic England
Scotland, 1716 –
Touring alone by means of a frightful snowstorm, Bethan Glentaggart is determined to get to London the place her husband languishes within the Tower of London. Because the date of Gavin’s beheading quickly approaches, Bethan has solely her wits and her girls associates to help her in opposition to King George. Will she be capable to free Gavin? Will she even be allowed to see him?
