Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished actress. She, and Robert—& Carrie’s sisters, who were in on it—maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.
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Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished actress. She, and Robert—& Carrie’s sisters, who were in on it—maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.
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Gabriela’s—Carrie’s—incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of Carrie’s life. But can fiction beat reality?
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/The-gaucho-MP-and-the-girl-from-the-Yorkshire-Ridings
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
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You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book: 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham—“A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in #Mexico, #Morocco, & #Scotland they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/
PS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which the above three are extracted – are available free online via @gutenberg_org