Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 4.1 (November 1996)

New "Lost Colony" Romances

Researchers interested in the adaptation of Roanoke colonization materials into popular culture should be interested in two new Christian romance novels by Angela Elwell Hunt, Roanoke: The Lost Colony and Jamestown (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1996). Roanoke tells of Thomas and Jocelyn Colman, a newly married couple who are part of the 1587 settlement. Hunt portrays Jocelyn as John White's neice and Colman as a recently widowed clergyman who is having doubts of faith. Jamestown, on the other hand, tells about "Gilda, Fallon, and Noshi . . . three children, the sole survivors of the Roanoke massacre," the attack that effectively wipes out the remnants of the "Lost Colony" at about the time the 1607 Jamestown colony is being established.

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