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The Captain's Widow of Sandwich: Self-invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Captain's Widow of SandwichIn 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. This title examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own.
Full description- Publisher: New York University Press
- Published: 25 May 2010
- Format: Hardback 272 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Gender Studies: Women | History Of The Americas | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780814783191 ISBN 10: 0814783198
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Full description for The Captain's Widow of Sandwich
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'.
