Covering the history of the last Jacobite Rising, this book tells the stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Female support for the Stuart cause was significant, and the government of the day feared these women who gave money and hospitality or acted as spies. Some stood with their men, while others acted in direct opposition to them. Eighteen of the most prominent women were arrested after the defeat of the Rising; hundreds actively involved themselves on both sides; and many others were raped, persecuted, or transported to the colonies. With one famous exception, historians have ignored female participation in the '45 Rising. This book, based largely on original documents and letters, aims to redress the balance.
Maggie Craig is a Scottish writer and historian. A recognized authority on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, she is the author of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45. When her son asked for a book about the men too, she wrote Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45. All of her books are meticulously researched but written in an accessible and entertaining style.
Her latest non-fiction book is When the Clyde Ran Red, a lively account of Glasgow and the West of Scotland in the days of Red Clydeside.
She is also the author of seven page-turning novels set in Glasgow and Edinburgh and is always fair chuffed when readers she meets at talks and events jokingly accuse her of having kept them up until two o'clock in the morning because they had to find out what happened next.
Her most recent novel is One Sweet Moment, a passionate and poignant tale of Edinburgh in the 1820s. This is now available as an ebook for Amazon Kindle.
Maggie is currently working on a novel of romantic suspense and adventure set in Edinburgh just before the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
