Heee. Why did she choose to go to that time in particular? Was she just itching to see if it could've worked if they went on from Derby?
Ooh, that's a good question that I no longer remember the answer to, 20+ years later.
...Okay, I rummaged around in my memory while washing dishes just now, and I think she was chasing another time traveler, the one who actually invented the time machine, and trying to forestall them from--something, I no longer remember.
And then I think she winged it once she was on the ground in 1745 Scotland with no way back to the future. There was definitely a second time-traveler as the antagonist, though, and they had numerous encounters over the years in the 18th century, while she was on her quest for world dominion.
Wow, past self, lolz. I researched a lot of things, but realism in my protagonist was not one of them! (Come to think of it, I think pure realism would have required my protagonist to be the antagonist and vice versa. See also my love for terrible people as long as they're safely remote, see also how I got into Frederick the Great. :P)
ETA: In my past self's defense, the Doylist reason for why my protagonist went to join the '45 is that how I discovered the 18th century and the Jacobites in the first place, was a Star Trek novel. In that novel, Scotty travels from the twenty-third century back to 1745 and joins Bonnie Prince Charlie (whom I had never before heard of). Four weeks and several avidly consumed encyclopedia entries later, I was writing my own novel with the same "time traveling from the twenty-third century back to 1745 and joining BPC" premise, and a very different outcome. :P
I can write up some stuff about the more well-known ones, too, if there's interest (Margaret Ogilvy, "Colonel" Anne Mackintosh, Lady Lude, etc).
There is always interest in salon!
Oh, speaking of memory-rummaging, I've been rummaging in the last few days about Charles' visit to England, given all the reliable-looking sources that have turned up. I think *maybe* my past self conflated "don't believe the legend that he was at G3's 1760 coronation" with "don't believe the legend that he visited England again in the 1750s and converted to Anglicanism." But I definitely got it stuck in my head that he never set foot on the island after leaving. (Which made sense to me, given the risks and the obstacles!)
Re: Female Jacobites
Ooh, that's a good question that I no longer remember the answer to, 20+ years later.
...Okay, I rummaged around in my memory while washing dishes just now, and I think she was chasing another time traveler, the one who actually invented the time machine, and trying to forestall them from--something, I no longer remember.
And then I think she winged it once she was on the ground in 1745 Scotland with no way back to the future. There was definitely a second time-traveler as the antagonist, though, and they had numerous encounters over the years in the 18th century, while she was on her quest for world dominion.
Wow, past self, lolz. I researched a lot of things, but realism in my protagonist was not one of them! (Come to think of it, I think pure realism would have required my protagonist to be the antagonist and vice versa. See also my love for terrible people as long as they're safely remote, see also how I got into Frederick the Great. :P)
ETA: In my past self's defense, the Doylist reason for why my protagonist went to join the '45 is that how I discovered the 18th century and the Jacobites in the first place, was a Star Trek novel. In that novel, Scotty travels from the twenty-third century back to 1745 and joins Bonnie Prince Charlie (whom I had never before heard of). Four weeks and several avidly consumed encyclopedia entries later, I was writing my own novel with the same "time traveling from the twenty-third century back to 1745 and joining BPC" premise, and a very different outcome. :P
I can write up some stuff about the more well-known ones, too, if there's interest (Margaret Ogilvy, "Colonel" Anne Mackintosh, Lady Lude, etc).
There is always interest in salon!
Oh, speaking of memory-rummaging, I've been rummaging in the last few days about Charles' visit to England, given all the reliable-looking sources that have turned up. I think *maybe* my past self conflated "don't believe the legend that he was at G3's 1760 coronation" with "don't believe the legend that he visited England again in the 1750s and converted to Anglicanism." But I definitely got it stuck in my head that he never set foot on the island after leaving. (Which made sense to me, given the risks and the obstacles!)