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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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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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: | Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300218214 9780300218213 |