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The captain's widow of Sandwich [[electronic resource] ] : self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 / / Megan Taylor Shockley



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Autore: Shockley Megan Taylor Visualizza persona
Titolo: The captain's widow of Sandwich [[electronic resource] ] : self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 / / Megan Taylor Shockley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 910.4/5
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Soggetto topico: Ship captains' spouses - Massachusetts - Sandwich
Middle class women - Massachusetts - Sandwich
Women - Massachusetts - Sandwich
Seafaring life - Massachusetts - Sandwich - History - 19th century
Women - Identity
Autobiography - Women authors
Soggetto geografico: Sandwich (Mass.) Biography
Sandwich (Mass.) Social life and customs 19th century Sources
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: 1852
1856
1917
22-year-old
Burgess
Captains
Challenger
Crowell
Hannah
Massachusetts
Megan
Rebecca
Sandwich
Shockley
Taylor
Widow
William
Within
captain
constructed
crossed
died
dying
dysentery
eleven
embraced
equator
examines
familys
from
history
home
husband
learned
legend
marriage
married
navigate
own
proposals
refused
returned
sail
saved
ship
that
three
times
town
vessel
wealthy
where
years
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author’s Note on the Journals -- Introduction -- 1. Rebecca’s World -- 2. Becoming the Captain’s Wife -- 3. Rebecca at Sea -- 4. Challenges and Transitions -- 5. A New Era, a New Narrative -- 6. Visible and Invisible -- 7. From Legacy to Legend -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: 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.”
Titolo autorizzato: The captain's widow of Sandwich  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-8652-9
0-8147-4129-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458519003321
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