... gifts, since it is itself a book of easy charm and a kind of facile elegance which suits the period it depicts. For the great Whig families feature here, and the London of Devonshire House and Charles James Fox and the Prince Regent (who would loyally sport ...

... marries an English officer in the Duke of Cumberland's army.. There was nothing disloyal in that, for the Grahames were a Whig family. But Morag's eldest brother was a Jacobite, and when, clandestinely, she visits him in hiding, her spouse (was this ...

... spotlight settled, for two centuries cast into the shadows the memory of his public service. There was also the fact that the Whig historians of the eighteenth century were inclined to confer immortality only upon such Tories of the seventeenth century as ...

... story of that other war the American War of Independence, when the whole country was torn with dissension between the rebel Whigs and the Tories who had thrown in their lot with the British. The plot of Charleston Bound centres around the adventures of ...