The Spite of Fortune by Kishanda Fulford
This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in every good gothic novel, Louisa's father died, and having been deserted by her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle in his early Tudor manor in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight years later she left England to salvage her inheritance, a journey which took her to the Bahamas, and then to South Carolina. On her return to England she married a dashing naval officer, with whom she had ten children. Her affairs were much commented on at the time by relations and friends: we can occasionally be privy to the chaos around her dining table, or her distress at the death of one of her children. She had another traumatic adventure on the Atlantic at the age of thirty-five, when her ship was captured by French privateers. Over the years, despite her best endeavours, her fortune was demolished by the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, corrupt lawyers, fraudulent deeds, a spendthrift husband and profligate son.
Kishanda Fulford was born in 1960, in East Africa where her father was a District Commissioner. She is named after a beautiful rift valley where her parents camped on a hunting expedition. When Tanganyika obtained independence the family returned to England. She had a chequered educational career which included stays of various lengths at girls' boarding schools before her father, finally losing patience, sent her to the local state school. After leaving school she became an itinerant journalist whilst also working for two of the most well-known auction houses in London. In 1991, after a lightning romance, she married Francis Fulford andbecame chatelaine of Great Fulford, a large rambling, mainly Tudor, manor that has been in the family for eight hundred years. She has four children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853982026 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853982024 |
| Title | The Spite of Fortune |
| Author | Kishanda Fulford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ashgrove Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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