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Sailors' Wives
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Samuel Hopkins Adams
Categories: Long Island (N.Y.)
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"Of marriage and morals among the smart young monied set on Long Island." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.
The Sailor's Wife
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Helen Benedict
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Zoland Books, Incorporated

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Joyce finds herself living the merciless life of a Greek peasant woman, at the command of people steeped in religion, misogyny, superstition, and their experien
To be a Sailor's Wife
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Hanna Hagmark-Cooper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-17 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The duality of maritime family life, the relationship between reconstruction and discourse and the symbolic status of the seafarer’s wife are at the core of t
Female Tars
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Suzanne J. Stark
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-01 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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The wives and female guests of commissioned officers often went to sea in the sailing ships of Britain’s Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries, but there
Women Sailors and Sailors' Women
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: David Cordingly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-15 - Publisher: Random House

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For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters