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100 1 $aShockley, Megan Taylor.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003033206
245 14 $aThe captain's widow of Sandwich :$bself-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 /$cMegan Taylor Shockley.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axi, 267 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tRebecca's World: Developing Character -- $g2.$tBecoming the Captain's Wife: Crafting Personas and Defining Relationships -- $g3.$tRebecca at Sea: Fashioning a New Identity -- $g4.$tChallenges and Transitions: Shifting Identities -- $g5.$tA New Era, a New Narrative -- $g6.$tVisible and Invisible: Rebecca's Multiple Identities -- $g7.$tFrom Legacy to Legend.
520 1 $a"In 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within two 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 the conflicting gender roles of her subject's life: how Burgess managed to reconcile her own daring and traditionally masculine adventures at sea and her independent lifestyle - namely her unusual decision to remain a young widow with no children - with the staunch ideals of the period's "Victorian woman," which Burgess simultaneously and wholeheartedly embraced."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBurgess, Hannah Rebecca,$d1834-1917.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86117224
600 10 $aBurgess, Hannah Rebecca,$d1834-1917$vDiaries.
650 0 $aShip captains' spouses$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography.
650 0 $aMiddle class women$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$vBiography.
651 0 $aSandwich (Mass.)$vBiography.
651 0 $aSandwich (Mass.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$vSources.
650 0 $aSeafaring life$zMassachusetts$zSandwich$xHistory$y19th century$vSources.
650 0 $aWomen$xIdentity$vCase studies.
650 0 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors$vCase studies.
852 0 $bglx$hF74.S17$iS55 2010