num_pages: 432
description: 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 familys black butler. Soon after reaching shore Charlottes 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 Mikmaq 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.
language: English
title: The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
publisher: Vintage Canada