The subject of David Lindsay's Mayflower Bastard is Richard More, a distant kinsman of Lindsay's. More, the 5-year-old, illegitimate offspring of a headstrong Shropshire woman and a man of "mean parentage," arrived in the New World on the Mayflower.
Flavor of historial memoir or journal. Effective in captures a personal feel of a life lived large in a yet to be defined world.
