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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Author's Note on the Journals; Introduction; 1 Rebecca's World: Developing Character; 2 Becoming the Captain's Wife: Crafting Personas and Defining Relationships; 3 Rebecca at Sea: Fashioning a New Identity; 4 Challenges and Transitions: Shifting Identities; 5 A New Era, a New Narrative; 6 Visible and Invisible: Rebecca's Multiple Identities; 7 From Legacy to Legend; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author |
| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Burgess, Hannah Rebecca, 1834-1917 -- Diaries
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Burgess, Hannah Rebecca, 1834-1917 fast |
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Ship captains' spouses -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
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Middle class women -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
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Women -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- Biography
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Seafaring life -- Massachusetts -- Sandwich -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Autobiography -- Women authors -- Case studies
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Autobiography -- Women authors
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Manners and customs
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Middle class women
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Seafaring life
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Ship captains' spouses
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Women
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Sandwich (Mass. : Town) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources
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Massachusetts -- Sandwich
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Biographies
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Case studies
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Diaries
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History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814786529 |
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0814786529 |
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