![]() ![]() She is also convinced there is a lost masterpiece, a poem that Wordsworth wrote about the legend of what happened to his notorious friend. Jane is banking on the fact that Wordsworth couldn't have ignored a story as big as this. She sees the discovery of this body as an opportunity to raise herself out of semi-poverty and perhaps even prove her long-held theory that, indeed, Fletcher did return to England and chose to tell his version of events to his old school friend. Jane has been eking out a living in the rundown Marshpool Farm Estate in London. When a tattooed body is found half preserved in the brackish water of a peat bog just outside of Fellhead, local Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham jumps at the chance to investigate. ![]() To live out the rest of his life in his birthplace, hidden from justice by his family and friends, safely ensconced in the Cumbria ![]() But did Christian really die, or was his murder faked? Did he in fact make it all the way back to England Ship from Bligh on April 28th, 1789, claiming the crew were suffering from inhumane treatment.Ĭhristian ended up living on Pitcairn Island, where he later died along with the other mutineers. The English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850).Ĭhristian was a Master's Mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti, and it was Fletcher Christian who seized command of the ![]() Author Val McDermid centers The Grave Tattoo on the legend of famed mutineer Fletcher Christian (1764 – 1793) and his relationship to ![]()
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