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Book The Female Soldier  Or  The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

Download or read book The Female Soldier Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little adventure book presents a fascinating account of an Englishwoman who disguised as a man to serve in the Royal Marines during the early 1700s. An entertaining and valuable read for history lovers.

Book The Female Soldier  Or  The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

Download or read book The Female Soldier Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Female Soldier  Or  The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

Download or read book The Female Soldier Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell written by Hannah Snell and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Female Soldier  Or  The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

Download or read book The Female Soldier Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell written by Dianne Dugaw and published by Los Angeles (2520 Cimarron St., Los Angeles 90018) : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Female Soldier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anonymous
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-03-28
  • ISBN : 9781497470668
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book The Female Soldier written by Anonymous and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life And Adventures of Hannah Snell By Anonymous

Book The Female Soldier  The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

Download or read book The Female Soldier The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell written by Richard Walker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Snell was an 18th-century woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier. This extremely popular biography centers around a recurrent 18th century trope of cross-dressing that subversively challenged social expectations and gender norms.

Book The Female Soldier

Download or read book The Female Soldier written by Hannah Snell and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Soldier; or, the Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell Frances Scanagatti or, the Female Soldier by Anonymous The women who marched to war Female soldiers are always something of a curiosity and these two brief accounts, one British the other Italian, might not have seen individual re-publication in modern times so this special Leonaur edition brings them together. The accounts-both originally published anonymously-tell of two women who joined the ranks of the army in disguised as men and fought undiscovered. The most famous of the two is Hannah Snell. Born in 1723 she married a James Summ who subsequently deserted her, so she adopted male clothes to search for him only to discover that he had been executed for murder. Her claims regarding her participation, as a soldier of Guises regiment, in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, led by Charles Stewart, have been questioned, but she certainly joined the Royal Marines and sailed to India where she took part in the capture of Pondicherry from the French and in the Battle of Devicotta. She was wounded no less than twelve times and despite eventually revealing her gender was awarded a pension for her services. Frances Scanagatti was born in Milan, Italy in 1781 and her interest in military life was evident from an early age. The account of her progress under arms is not as specific in its detail as present day readers might like, but it seems clear that she served in the Austrian Army at the time of the wars with Revolutionary France. The life of another female soldier, of the British Army of the Marlborough period, the renowned Mother Ross, is also available as a Leonaur edition. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Book The Female Soldier

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  • Author : Multiple Contributors
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781385862230
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Female Soldier written by Multiple Contributors and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T154424 London: printed for, and sold by R. Walker, 1750. 187, [1]p., plates: ill., port.; 8°

Book Warrior Women and Popular Balladry  1650 1850

Download or read book Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650 1850 written by Dianne Dugaw and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.

Book Female Husbands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jen Manion
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-26
  • ISBN : 1108587437
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Female Husbands written by Jen Manion and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

Book Ends of Empire

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  • Author : Laura Brown
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780801480959
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Ends of Empire written by Laura Brown and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representation of women in english literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole.

Book Behind the Rifle

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  • Author : Shelby Harriel-Hidlebaugh
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2019-02-25
  • ISBN : 1496822021
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Behind the Rifle written by Shelby Harriel-Hidlebaugh and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Mississippi’s strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state’s system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements—Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, and Brice’s Crossroads—along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature. However, Mississippi’s chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. Surprisingly, there were a number of female soldiers disguised as males who stood shoulder to shoulder with them on the firing lines across the state. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi—either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced. Included are two maps and over twenty period photographs of locations relative to the stories of these female fighters along with images of some of the women themselves. The product of over ten years of research, this work provides new details of formerly recorded female fighters, debunks some cases, and introduces over twenty previously undocumented ones. Among these are women soldiers who were involved in such battles beyond Mississippi as Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Readers will also find new documentation regarding female fighters held as prisoners of war in such notorious prisons as Andersonville.

Book Ballads and Broadsides in Britain  1500 1800

Download or read book Ballads and Broadsides in Britain 1500 1800 written by Patricia Fumerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.

Book Neo  Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry

Download or read book Neo Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry written by Ann Heilmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.