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The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright
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Title
The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright / Ann M. Little.
ISBN
9780300224627 (ebook) :
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2016).
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Summary
An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America. Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural.
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Yale scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2017
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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