Nothing is known for certain about Edith's early life, as her true identity has never been fully established. Some very early alleged letters of hers, written to her parents, was addressed to "Evelyn and Richard Grand" in the town of Edgewater on the island of Brine. This letter was not discovered until after the Grands died, but one of their neighbors, Samuel Westbridge confirmed the Grands had a daughter who ran away in her teens. The veracity of this version of events has been called into question on the grounds of Westbridge having been a fiction author who wrote and published a poorly sourced book on the matter, "The Pirate Queen: The True Story of Edith Darkwater". | Nothing is known for certain about Edith's early life, as her true identity has never been fully established. Some very early alleged letters of hers, written to her parents, was addressed to "Evelyn and Richard Grand" in the town of Edgewater on the island of Brine. This letter was not discovered until after the Grands died, but one of their neighbors, Samuel Westbridge confirmed the Grands had a daughter who ran away in her teens. The veracity of this version of events has been called into question on the grounds of Westbridge having been a fiction author who wrote and published a poorly sourced book on the matter, "The Pirate Queen: The True Story of Edith Darkwater". |