Jewel - Czerkawska Catherine
Jewel - Czerkawska Catherine The Jewel is set largely during the dramatic years of Jean Armour and Robert Burns's courtship in Mauchline, their married life at Ellisland and in Dumfries, and Robert s…
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Jewel - Czerkawska Catherine
The Jewel is set largely during the dramatic years of Jean Armour and Robert Burns's courtship in Mauchline, their married life at Ellisland and in Dumfries, and Robert s early death, all against a background simmering with political intrigue and turmoil. At first, her stonemason father tried to protect the young Jean from the advances of the mercurial ploughman-poet, whose roving eye and even delusions of grandeur were notorious. Jean, a beautiful young woman with the voice of a nightingale, has been inexplicably neglected by biographers and historians.
Their extraordinary marriage was passionate, tempestuous, and enduring against all odds, and its rocky course reveals Jean s indomitable strength and character. Nevertheless, she fell for him and accepted his proposal. How she lived with, and frequently without, Scotland s most famous son tells us much about the life and times of