LEADER 03933nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910812789003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-8652-9 010 $a0-8147-4129-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814786529 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014518 035 $a(EBL)866005 035 $a(OCoLC)779828351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10380846 035 $a(PQKB)11468290 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323654 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866005 035 $a(OCoLC)643562592 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4848 035 $a(DE-B1597)547678 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814786529 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866005 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386277 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014518 100 $a20091020d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe captain's widow of Sandwich $eself-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 /$fMegan Taylor Shockley 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-8319-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAuthor?s Note on the Journals --$tIntroduction --$t1. Rebecca?s World --$t2. Becoming the Captain?s Wife --$t3. Rebecca at Sea --$t4. Challenges and Transitions --$t5. A New Era, a New Narrative --$t6. Visible and Invisible --$t7. From Legacy to Legend --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aIn 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.? 606 $aShip captains' spouses$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography 606 $aMiddle class women$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography 606 $aWomen$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography 606 $aSeafaring life$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 606 $aWomen$xIdentity$vCase studies 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors$vCase studies 607 $aSandwich (Mass.)$vBiography 607 $aSandwich (Mass.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$vSources 615 0$aShip captains' spouses 615 0$aMiddle class women 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aSeafaring life$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xIdentity 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors 676 $a910.4/5 676 $aB 700 $aShockley$b Megan Taylor$01621072 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812789003321 996 $aThe captain's widow of Sandwich$93954190 997 $aUNINA