Tag Archives: Lost Colony
Paul Clayton. White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. [Bangor, ME]: Booklocker.com, 2009.
White Seed follows the journey of the settlers of the Lost Colony, the third group sent to the Americas by Sir Walter Raleigh, as they fight to survive on what is now the North Carolina coast. But who would be … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Clayton, Paul, Coast, Dare, Historical
Richard Folsom. Indian Wood. [United States: BookSurge?], 2009.
Is it possible that three people were murdered because of something they found on an old reel of microfilm? That’s what newspaperman Luther Surles wants to find out in this mystery that moves between the Court of Queen Elizabeth I … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Coast, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Dare, Folsom, Richard, Greene, Historical, Mystery, Robeson
Lisa Klein. Cate of the Lost Colony. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.
The death of Catherine Archer’s father in 1583 prompts Queen Elizabeth to invite her to Whitehall to be one of her maids of honor. While in London, Catherine (nicknamed Cat by the Queen) meets Sir Walter Ralegh and becomes enchanted … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Children & Young Adults, Coast, Dare, Historical, Klein, Lisa
Margaret Lawrence. Roanoke. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009.
Gabriel North, a young man employed by Lord Burghley, is known to have a way with women. In an attempt to avoid war with the Native Americans at Roanoke, Burghley sends North there to seduce the Secota princess, Naia. The … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Coast, Dare, Historical, Lawrence, Margaret
James Pendleton. Drinkwater’s Folly. Raleigh, NC: Ivy House Publishing Group, 2007.
In the summer of 1966 Patricia Randal flees an abusive marriage and returns to Roanoke Island. There she works as a journalist and gets to know a wide rage of folks–longtime residents, fishermen, summer people, cast members of The Lost … Continue reading
E.A.B.S. (E. A. B. Shackelford). Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1892.
In this version of the Lost Colony story, most of the English settlers are killed, but Virginia Dare survives. In 1607, she goes north to Powhatan’s country, but the Jamestown settlers never learn of her existence. The remnants of Manteo’s … Continue reading
William Farquhar Payson. John Vytal: A Tale of the Lost Colony. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901.
This alternative telling of the Lost Colony story adds some new figures, including 16th century bad-boy dramatist Christopher Marlowe and the main character, Captain John Vytal. Spanish invaders, hostile Native Americans, and internal dissent doom the colony. Marlowe returns to … Continue reading
Filed under 1900-1909, 1901, Coast, Dare, Historical, Novels to Read Online, Payson, William Farquhar
Mary Virginia Wall. The Daughter of Virginia Dare. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1908.
Virginia Dare is the lone survivor of the Lost Colony. Against her will, she becomes the consort of Powhatan and bears him a daughter, Pocahontas. After this interesting Tar Heel prelude, the novel relates the standard stories of Pocahontas, Jamestown, … Continue reading
Filed under 1900-1909, 1908, Coast, Dare, Historical, Novels to Read Online, Wall, Mary Virginia
Deborah Homsher. The Rising Shore–Roanoke. Blue Hull Press, 2007.
The Rising Shore–Roanoke recounts the story of the Lost Colony from the perspective of two of its female members: Elenor White Dare, the daughter of expedition leader John White, and her servant Margaret Lawrence. Elenor longs to explore and paint … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Dare, Historical, Homsher, Deborah
