The Captain's Widow of Sandwich : Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 / Megan Taylor Shockley.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - 9780814783191
- 9780814786529
- Autobiography -- Women authors -- Case studies
- Middle class women -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
- Seafaring life -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Ship captains' spouses -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
- Women -- Identity -- Case studies
- Women -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- 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
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- wealthy
- where
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- 910.45 23
- F74.S17 S55 2016
- online - DeGruyter
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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."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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