Seafaring Women (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Grant De Pauw
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: The twelfth century to 1980
- Setting: The world’s oceans, particularly the North Atlantic
- Principal Characters: Grace O’Malley, Mary Read, Rachel Wall, Hsi Kai Ching Yih, Fanny Campbell, Hannah Snell, Eliza Williams, Mary Lawrence, Joanna Carver Colcord, Hazel Zuckerman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Women, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Military life or service, China or Chinese people, Biography, Pirates, Merchants, Whales or whaling
- Locales: Oceans
Form and Content
Linda Grant De Pauw introduces Seafaring Women by dispelling many of the myths and superstitions that have surrounded women and seafaring through the ages. She then turns to stories of specific women who lived and worked aboard vessels, primarily between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The account of women’s lives at sea is divided into four principal occupations: pirates, warriors, whalers, and traders. A final chapter on the future of seafaring women speaks about some of the more recent concerns of women both in the private sector and in the...
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