The secret of Kit Cavenaugh : a remarkable Irish woman and soldier
Holland, Anne2015
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Christian 'Kit' Cavenaugh, born in 1667 in Dublin, grew up on a Leixlip farm. A dragoon in the Marlborough Wars, Kit led an adventurous life, courting women, fighting duels and arguing a paternity suit before the truth became known: Kit was a woman. After her husband and father of her three children was press-ganged into the English army to fight in the European wars of the early eighteenth century, Kit disguised herself as a man and enlisted to find him. When she finally came face to face with him in 1704, she was enraged to find him in the arms of a Dutch woman. Kit's adventures did not end there...
Main title:
Author:
Holland, Anne, author
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester [England] Thorpe, 2015.
Collation:
328 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Series:
Ulverscroft
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
9781444822557 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.5355.0092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
292522