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The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century
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The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century

Author: Martha Elizabeth Hodes
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:
Historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
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Named Person: Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Martha Elizabeth Hodes
ISBN: 9780393052664 0393052664 9780393330298 039333029X 9780739482988 073948298X
OCLC Number: 69013332
Description: 384 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: The family of Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly --
Three notes to the reader --
1. A story and a history --
2. A carpenter's wife --
3. Yankee in the deep South --
4. Servant and washerwoman --
5. From widow to bride --
6. The sea captain's wife --
7. Hurricane --
8. Searching for Eunice --
Notes --
Essay on sources --
Acknowledgments --
Permissions and illustration credits.
Responsibility: Martha Hodes.
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Takes us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Conley. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice led a hard life. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history -  Read more...

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