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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780814786529
035 _a(DE-B1597)547678
035 _a(OCoLC)779828351
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aF74.S17
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072 7 _aHIS036100
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082 0 4 _a910.45
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aShockley, Megan Taylor
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Captain's Widow of Sandwich :
_bSelf-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 /
_cMegan Taylor Shockley.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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520 _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."
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aAutobiography
_xWomen authors
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aMiddle class women
_zMassachusetts
_zSandwich
_vBiography.
650 0 _aSeafaring life
_zMassachusetts
_zSandwich
_xHistory
_y19th century
_vSources.
650 0 _aShip captains' spouses
_zMassachusetts
_zSandwich
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen
_xIdentity
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aWomen
_zMassachusetts
_zSandwich
_vBiography.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
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653 _a1852.
653 _a1856.
653 _a1917.
653 _a22-year-old.
653 _aBurgess.
653 _aCaptains.
653 _aChallenger.
653 _aCrowell.
653 _aHannah.
653 _aMassachusetts.
653 _aMegan.
653 _aRebecca.
653 _aSandwich.
653 _aShockley.
653 _aTaylor.
653 _aWidow.
653 _aWilliam.
653 _aWithin.
653 _acaptain.
653 _aconstructed.
653 _acrossed.
653 _adied.
653 _adying.
653 _adysentery.
653 _aeleven.
653 _aembraced.
653 _aequator.
653 _aexamines.
653 _afamilys.
653 _afrom.
653 _ahistory.
653 _ahome.
653 _ahusband.
653 _alearned.
653 _alegend.
653 _amarriage.
653 _amarried.
653 _anavigate.
653 _aown.
653 _aproposals.
653 _arefused.
653 _areturned.
653 _asail.
653 _asaved.
653 _aship.
653 _athat.
653 _athree.
653 _atimes.
653 _atown.
653 _avessel.
653 _awealthy.
653 _awhere.
653 _ayears.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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999 _c201589
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