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D.K. Broster
65 books15 followersDorothy Kathleen Broster (1877 - 1950) produced 15 popular historical novels between 1911 and 1947.
The Yellow Poppy (1920) about the adventures of an aristocratic couple during the French Revolution, was later adapted by Broster and W. Edward Stirling for the London stage in 1922. She produced her bestseller Scottish historical novel, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925. Broster stated she had consulted eighty reference books before beginning the novel. She followed it up with two successful sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile. She wrote several other historical novels, successful and much reprinted in their day, although this Jacobite trilogy (inspired by a five-week visit to friends in Scotland), featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remains the best known.
The Flight of the Heron was adapted for BBC Radio twice, in 1944, starring Gordon Jackson as Ewen Cameron, and again in 1959, starring Bryden Murdoch as Cameron. Murdoch also starred in radio adaptations of the book's sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile.
The Yellow Poppy (1920) about the adventures of an aristocratic couple during the French Revolution, was later adapted by Broster and W. Edward Stirling for the London stage in 1922. She produced her bestseller Scottish historical novel, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925. Broster stated she had consulted eighty reference books before beginning the novel. She followed it up with two successful sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile. She wrote several other historical novels, successful and much reprinted in their day, although this Jacobite trilogy (inspired by a five-week visit to friends in Scotland), featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remains the best known.
The Flight of the Heron was adapted for BBC Radio twice, in 1944, starring Gordon Jackson as Ewen Cameron, and again in 1959, starring Bryden Murdoch as Cameron. Murdoch also starred in radio adaptations of the book's sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile.
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August 28, 2023
During the Revolutionary wars of the 1790s, French Royalist Charlotte d'Esparre suddenly finds herself alone and all but penniless in the chaos of the evacuation of Toulon by the British navy.
She finds protection in a forced marriage, with a wealthy widow and her son, with a poor widow and her son, with an English family needing a governess for their appallingly brattish daughter, with an elderly but chivalrous friend of her late father - and each time she feels safe, her haven is snatched from her by jealousy, misunderstanding, spite or death.
Will Charlotte ever come to a permanent harbour? Perhaps Captain Nugent Carew has the answer.
An exciting adventure story with, unusually for Broster, a female protagonist. Charlotte isn't, perhaps, the 'strong woman' that a 21st century reader might hope for, but she finds strength and resilience within herself and though often frightened, she copes.
She finds protection in a forced marriage, with a wealthy widow and her son, with a poor widow and her son, with an English family needing a governess for their appallingly brattish daughter, with an elderly but chivalrous friend of her late father - and each time she feels safe, her haven is snatched from her by jealousy, misunderstanding, spite or death.
Will Charlotte ever come to a permanent harbour? Perhaps Captain Nugent Carew has the answer.
An exciting adventure story with, unusually for Broster, a female protagonist. Charlotte isn't, perhaps, the 'strong woman' that a 21st century reader might hope for, but she finds strength and resilience within herself and though often frightened, she copes.
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