{"product_id":"the-captainas-widow-of-sandwich-self-invention-and-the-life-of-hannah-rebecca-burgess-1834-1917-9780814783191","title":"The Captainas Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within three years, Rebecca Burgess had crossed the equator eleven times and learned to navigate a vessel. In 1856, 22-year-old Rebecca saved the ship Challenger as her husband lay dying from dysentery. The widow returned to her family's home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where she refused all marriage proposals and died wealthy in 1917.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the way Burgess recorded her story in her prodigious journals and registers, which she donated to the local historical society upon her death, but there is no other evidence that this dramatic event occurred exactly this way. In \u003cb\u003eThe Captain's Widow of Sandwich\u003c\/b\u003e, Megan Taylor Shockley examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own. Through careful analysis of myriad primary sources, Shockley also addresses how Burgess dealt with the conflicting gender roles of her life, reconciling her traditionally masculine adventures at sea and her independent lifestyle with the accepted ideals of the period's \"Victorian woman.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Taylor Shockley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.12w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814783191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShockley, Megan Taylor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Taylor Shockley\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University and the author of \u003ci\u003e\"We, Too, Are Americans\" African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40424469397619,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":89.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_06e92023-7a79-464c-9292-8b7bca4c9fbe.jpg?v=1662559119","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-captainas-widow-of-sandwich-self-invention-and-the-life-of-hannah-rebecca-burgess-1834-1917-9780814783191","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}