The Spite of Fortune

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The Troubled Life and Times of Louisa Carolina Colleton. The true biography of Louisa Carolina Colleton, is a tale that could have flown from the most gothic of historical romances. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, Louisa unexpectedly inherited valuable estates on both sides of the Atlantic after her father had died. Her mother, Lady Colleton, had long deserted her and she went to live with her maternal Uncle at Great Fulford, a Tudor manor, in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight years later, determined to salvage her inheritance, she embarked on a two-and-a-half-year journey which took her first to the Bahamas, and then