Robert Neilson Stephens

The Flight of Georgiana Robert Neilson Stephens

The Flight of Georgiana is a romantic novel set on the background of the crushed Jacobite rebellion at the Culloden Moor and the end of the hopes of Charles Edward Stuart, The Pretender akso known as Bonnie Prince Charles. It is really a young adult adventure tale, a tale of curageous love and death, and love or death. Written with the mid-eigtheen century panache and verbal hyperbole it sometimes suffers from excess maulding romantic narrative, but is amply recompensed by the acerbic wit that criticizes the English gentry with a combined Dickensian-Thackarey-ish eye for the absurd. A nice funny, though dated, literary interlude