The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

by Sally Armstrong

Book Overview

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 family's black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte's 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 Mi'kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679314059
• ISBN13: 9780679314059
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Pure Nostalgia For Me

From the time I was a little girl, I heard the words Tabisintac, Taboosimgeg, Miramichi, Nepisiguit, Burnt Church, Mi'kmaq, Abenaki, not to mention the name of Charlotte Taylor, "Mother of Tabusintac". The river that ended at Wishart's Point was my father's playground. It was also the river that he crossed to go to school. Unless it was Spring and there was plowing to be done, or Fall when it was Harvest Time. And then when there was a thaw and the river was too dangerous to cross because of the ice. He didn't get as much education as Charlotte Taylor would have liked, but he was still quite smart. We were proud of him because his picture was in the town library for saving the younger children from drowning on that river. Unfortunately he lost a cousin, which brings me to the point of this review. I am sure we are related to everyone in this extremely well written account of the life of Charlotte Taylor. Sally Armstrong has portrayed a warm, loving, but strong willed woman that I would have been happy to have known. I thank her for this chance to relive the magic of my childhood, when my father would tell us of stories of HIS childhood. Nancy (MacCallum) Hudon