Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Captain’s Widow of SandwichCondition: NewEAN: 9780814783191ISBN: 9780814783191Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/12/2010Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Megan Taylor ShockleyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917ISBN-10: 0814783198Description: In 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within three years, Rebecca Burgess had crossed the equator eleven times and learned to navigate a vessel. In 1856, 22-year-old Rebecca saved the ship Challenger as her husband lay dying from dysentery. The widow returned to her family’s home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where she refused all marriage proposals and died wealthy in 1917.This is the way Burgess recorded her story in her prodigious journals and registers, which she donated to the local historical society upon her death, but there is no other evidence that this dramatic event occurred exactly this way. In The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich, Megan Taylor Shockley examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own. Through careful analysis of myriad primary sources, Shockley also addresses how Burgess dealt with the conflicting gender roles of her life, reconciling her traditionally masculine adventures at sea and her independent lifestyle with the accepted ideals of the period’s “Victorian woman.”Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Home Garden & PetsTopic: History, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich
Title: The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich
EAN: 9780814783191
ISBN: 9780814783191
Release Date: 04/12/2010
Release Year: 2010
Subtitle: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917
ISBN-10: 0814783198
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Publication Name: Captain's Widow of Sandwich : Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Women, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General, Women's Studies, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Customs & Traditions
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Megan Taylor Shockley
Subject Area: Transportation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
