MacLyon

by Lolah Burford

When the drunken Diarmid MacLyon abducts and forcibly marries the young Mary Elisabeth Grant, the impulsive act has consequences that neither could foresee.Disowned by his father, his homestead and new wife savaged by His Majesty's troops in the retaliation after the Battle of Culloden Moor, MacLyon is captured and shipped off to indenture in the colonies. While his proud Highlander character refuses to bend his back for another man, Mary undergoes her own degrading odyssey to free the man who ruined her innocence and with whom she has fallen in love.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Burford was the daughter of Joseph Michael Egan and Mae Rene Flanary. She was educated at Bryn Mawr (Class of 1951), and SMU Graduate School (Class of 1954). She served as a teacher at the Norfleet School of Music and Individual Studies in New York, and was an instructor in the SMU English department after receiving her master's degree. She married poet William Skell Burford, who co-founded the literary magazine The Medusa.

She died in Tarrant, Texas in 2002.

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was exactly the cliché book I expected, but in a good way. It comes complete with the quintessential girl that every man falls in love with immediately but she only has eyes for the man who is her abductor/r*pist. Totally ridiculous, and it was great.

[Ella · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun in its bonkers batshittery but also not very good.