Jennifer Potter is author of four novels and five works of nonfiction, including Strange Blooms, The Rose: A True History, and Seven Flowers. As Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, she inspires good writing among doctoral students and younger academics, and she was recently appointed one of the first Royal Literary Fund Fellows at the British Library.
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Jamestown, England’s first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger—from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: six out of seven settlers died wit... SEE MORE