#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Alistair: After she was gone, I unfortunately realized that I still loved her, and that it was too late for us. I could do nothing about it. There really isn’t much more to say on the subject, but I was never ashamed of the outpouring of emotion like most men are.

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PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

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PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

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You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

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Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via Project MUSE

17/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/

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Gabriela’s – Carrie’s – incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of her life. But can fiction beat reality?

16/18

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/The-gaucho-MP-and-the-girl-from-the-Yorkshire-Ridings

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Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished thespian. She, and Robert – & Carrie’s sisters, who were in on the secret – maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.

15/18

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Then, in 1985, papers were discovered by the family. “Gabriela” had not been born in Chile to European nobility: her real name was Carrie Horsfall, from Masham in Yorkshire, who ran away to become an actress – which might explain why her exotic accent was so hard to pin down.

14/18

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In 1906, when Gabriela died, tragically young, she was buried on the island of Inchmahome in the Lake of Menteith. RBCG dug her grave himself. He never remarried. When he died, 30 years later, he was buried alongside her

13/18

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2018/01/adventurer-worth-remembering/

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