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'Like the fiction of films or
costumed re-enactments, Sue Allan's historical novel takes us beyond court
records and official memoirs to conversations and emotions whose reality went
unrecorded. Cleverly noticing the Pilgrim Fathers least studied by historians, Sue
invents a tale of adventure and romance that lets us imagine the life of a
maidservant who chose to join the Mayflower Pilgrims.
Well-researched and evocative portrayals of Gainsborough Old Hall and the
Pilgrim Country of Nottinghamshire will make you want to visit the home of her
heroine Dorothy yourself.'
---- Jeremy Bangs, Director, Leiden American Pilgrim
Museum
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The Mayflower Maid
This
heroic story of love and adventure is set against the back drop of the turbulent times of the USA's origins. It was a period of sustained persecution for a group of people
known in English History as 'the 'Separatists' and to the Americans as The Pilgrim
Fathers.
This book is written by
established
English author, Sue
Allan, in association with
American writer, Roger Vorhauer. For the very first time, here is a fully
rounded, bi-national, ‘un-sanitized’ epic account of true events leading up to the
Mayflower’s monumentally important voyage. This saga is at last faithfully retold in a way
that makes history come to life, through the
fictionalization of the action-packed life and love of one of it’s more humble passengers, Dorothy ~
the
Mayflower Maid.
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Historical locations of interest related to The
Pilgrim Fathers in Britain that appear in this novel include -
Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Boston Guild Hall,
Boston, Lincolnshire, Scrooby Manor, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. The
authors of this site wish to acknowledge the assistance given to
them by the staff of both Gainsborough Old Hall and The Guild
Hall, Boston , The Friends Of Gainsborough Old Hall , Lincolnshire
County Council , Richard Copley -Baines of The Pilgrim Heritage Trust
and Dr. Jeremy Bangs during our research.
Pilgrim
Tours (UK)
Living
history, heritage and faith
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Photographs on this site
© Roger T Vorhauer and may not be
reproduced without permission.
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Restoration Lady
This is the conclusion to the
acclaimed trilogy which has so far numbered Mayflower
Maid (amazon
US ||
UK)
and Jamestown Woman (amazon
US ||
UK).
Bessie has already had enough adventures (and misadventures)
to fill several lifetimes in the New World and during the
Civil War; now she must survive the rigors of Cromwell’s
reign and the triumphant return of the monarchy, as well as
the woes of plague and fire.
It is good to get a novel about the
17th century, which is surely the least written about
century in the last thousand years. So much happened then
too — and most of it gets told in these three books. They
aren’t large books either, but I invariably prefer quality
to quantity and there is certainly true quality here as well
as a quantity of adventures, which is the best of both for a
novel. Bessie tells the story, and she comes over very much
as a woman of her time, getting under the skin of what it
must have been like to have lived through such a significant
period. The other people in the book and their exploits
have that all-important ring of authenticity about them too,
making this very much a realistic book. More from this
author soon please — being able to spin the dross of history
into the gold of story is not a common talent despite the
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