The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright
"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 wou...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut London, England
Yale University Press
[2016]
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wheelwright, Esther 1696-1780
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Ursulines (Québec (Province)) Biography
B Gitai, Amos: Esther 1696-1780 B History Modern 18th Century B History North America Province B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women B Biography B Wheelwright, Esther (1696-1780) B Ursulines Biographies Québec (Province) Ursulines B Ursulines Biography Québec (Province) B Gitai, Amos: Esther 1696-1780 Gitai, Amos: Esther 1696-1780 |
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| Summary: | "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. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life"--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index |
| ISBN: | 0300218214 |