Author: Marilyn Clay
Publisher: The Regency Plume Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the three types of women one would normally find, legally, or illegally, on board a ship during the 18th and early 19th Centuries. 1. Prostitutes. 2. Officer's and midshipmen's wives plus other female passengers during wartime. 3. Women masquerading as sailors or crewmen. This book cover all of them, and also provides colorful but factual accounts of surprising and certainly, little-known, incidents drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, diaries of such famous figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, as well as autobiographies written in the late 1700s by women, such as Mary Lacy who took to the sea masquerading as men and lived to tell of their experiences. Noted historians who have published works on the same subject are quoted and referenced. Best-selling, multi-published author MARILYN CLAY is a respected historian of the Regency period in English history. For sixteen years she published The Regency Plume, an international newsletter filled with well-researched articles useful to writers, historians and people interested in all aspects of the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history. In addition, Marilyn Clay was invited to contribute essays that were accepted and published in the Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s – 1830s (Garland, 1992). Marilyn Clay's Colonial American historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel, praised by The Library Journal and Booklist. To escape an arranged marriage, Catherine leaves England for Jamestown in search of her childhood sweetheart. What she finds in the New World nearly destroys her! SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel. When four English girls travel to the New World on a Bride Ship to marry settlers and start families, they are instead shocked to discover that someone in Jamestown wants them all dead! Available in ebook as A Petticoat And Lambskin Gloves. BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is another popular historical suspense novel by Marilyn Clay, set in Philadelphia in 1776. Quaker Betsy Ross sets out to uncover who killed her beloved husband John Ross, but is instead drawn into the dangerous and confusing underworld of spies and double agents. Available in print and e-book. Titles in Marilyn Clay's Regency-set Mystery Series include: MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER AT MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE and coming in late 2022 MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE. All are available worldwide in print and Ebook. Kensington Books published many of Marilyn Clay's Regency-set historical novels, all of which were translated to foreign languages. Titles include: Bewitching Lord Winterton, A Pretty Puzzle, Brighton Beauty, Miss Darby's Debut, The Uppity Earl, Felicity's Folly, Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller, and The Unsuitable Suitor. Marilyn Clay's newest Regency romance novel is titled THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX. Two look-alike cousins in London lead a love-struck nobleman on a merry chase. If the confused gentleman cannot sort out who is who, he just might propose to the wrong Miss Fairfax. Marilyn Clay's STALKING A KILLER is a contemporary murder mystery set in Dallas. Aspiring PI Amanda Mason must clear her own father from a murder charge before the killer strikes again. Marilyn Clay is the designer of the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award. Marilyn was presented the first golden statuette when the RITA award was unveiled. For more information on the author visit her website at Marilyn Clay Author.
Author: Marilyn Clay
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495315961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the type of women one would have normally found, legally or illegally, on board ship during this time period, namely-prostitutes; officers and midshipmen's wives and other female passengers, and women masquerading as sailors or crewmen. Colorful but factual accounts of little-known incidents in the book are drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, from diaries of such notable figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, and from autobiographies written in the late 1700s by women such as Mary Lacy, who took to the sea masquerading as men, and lived to tell of their experiences. Noted historians who have published works on the same subject are quoted. MARILYN CLAY is the acclaimed author of over twenty books. Her most recent novels DECEPTIONS: A COLONIAL JAMESTOWN NOVEL, A PETTICOAT AND LAMBSKIN GLOVES and BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY are all set in Colonial America and are available both in print and as e-books. Marilyn Clay's newest novel STALKING A KILLER, a contemporary murder mystery, is also available in print and as an e-book. For more information on the author, visit the Marilyn Clay Author website. For information on Marilyn Clay's international newsletter, THE REGENCY PLUME, visit The Regency plume website at http: theregencyplume.tripod.com/
Author: Cheryl A. Fury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843839538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at sea in the early modern period.
Author: John C. Appleby
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency.
Author: Katherine Foxhall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784993610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Helen Doe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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An examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Siân Evans
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250246474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold—until now. Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of the era, the ships themselves, and these women as they crossed the Atlantic. The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by class: from the luxury of the upper deck, playground for the rich and famous, to the cramped conditions of steerage or third class travel. In first class you’ll meet A-listers like Marlene Dietrich, Wallis Simpson, and Josephine Baker; the second class carried a new generation of professional and independent women, like pioneering interior designer Sibyl Colefax. Down in steerage, you’ll follow the journey of émigré Maria Riffelmacher as she escapes poverty in Europe. Bustling between decks is a crew of female workers, including Violet “The Unsinkable Stewardess” Jessop, who survived the Titanic disaster. Entertaining and informative, Maiden Voyages captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe.
Author: David Boyd Haycock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843835226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Examines a wide range of aspects of health and medicine in maritime and imperial settings during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Author: Bernhard Klein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135940460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.
Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Book Description
A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
