18th and 19th Century English Women At Sea
By Marilyn Clay
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18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the three types of women one would normally find, legally, or illegally, on board a ship during the 18th and early 19th Centuries. 1. Prostitutes. 2. Officer's and midshipmen's wives plus other female passengers during wartime. 3. Women masquerading as sailors or crewmen.
This book cover all of them, and also provides colorful but factual accounts of surprising and certainly, little-known, incidents drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, diaries of such famous figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, as well as autobiographies written in the late 1700s by women, such as Mary Lacy who took to the sea masquerading as men and lived to tell of their experiences. Noted historians who have published works on the same subject are quoted and referenced.
Best-selling, multi-published author MARILYN CLAY is a respected historian of the Regency period in English history. For sixteen years she published The Regency Plume, an international newsletter filled with well-researched articles useful to writers, historians and people interested in all aspects of the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history. In addition, Marilyn Clay was invited to contribute essays that were accepted and published in the Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s – 1830s (Garland, 1992).
Marilyn Clay's Colonial American historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel, praised by The Library Journal and Booklist. To escape an arranged marriage, Catherine leaves England for Jamestown in search of her childhood sweetheart. What she finds in the New World nearly destroys her!
SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel. When four English girls travel to the New World on a Bride Ship to marry settlers and start families, they are instead shocked to discover that someone in Jamestown wants them all dead! Available in ebook as A Petticoat And Lambskin Gloves.
BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is another popular historical suspense novel by Marilyn Clay, set in Philadelphia in 1776. Quaker Betsy Ross sets out to uncover who killed her beloved husband John Ross, but is instead drawn into the dangerous and confusing underworld of spies and double agents. Available in print and e-book.
Titles in Marilyn Clay's Regency-set Mystery Series include: MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER AT MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE and coming in late 2022 MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE. All are available worldwide in print and Ebook.
Kensington Books published many of Marilyn Clay's Regency-set historical novels, all of which were translated to foreign languages. Titles include: Bewitching Lord Winterton, A Pretty Puzzle, Brighton Beauty, Miss Darby's Debut, The Uppity Earl, Felicity's Folly, Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller, and The Unsuitable Suitor.
Marilyn Clay's newest Regency romance novel is titled THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX. Two look-alike cousins in London lead a love-struck nobleman on a merry chase. If the confused gentleman cannot sort out who is who, he just might propose to the wrong Miss Fairfax.
Marilyn Clay's STALKING A KILLER is a contemporary murder mystery set in Dallas. Aspiring PI Amanda Mason must clear her own father from a murder charge before the killer strikes again.
Marilyn Clay is the designer of the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award. Marilyn was presented the first golden statuette when the RITA award was unveiled. For more information on the author visit her website at Marilyn Clay Author.
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18th and 19th Century English Women At Sea - Marilyn Clay
18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH
WOMEN AT SEA
A Regency Plume Publication
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Copyright © July 2014 by Marilyn Jean Clay
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ISBN-10: 1495315967
ISBN-13: 978-1495315961
PROLOGUE
A ship from the time of King Henry VIII
"Oh, when I was a fair maid about seventeen, I enlisted in the Navy for to serve the Queen; I enlisted in the Navy, a sailor for to stand . . . For to hear the cannons rattling, and the music so grand.
They sent me to bed, and they sent me to bunk. To lie with the sailors, I never was afraid. But putting off my blue coat, it often made me smile . . . To think I’d laid with a thousand men, and a maiden all the while.
. . . verses from ‘When I Was a Fair Maid.’ Author Anonymous.
IN THE ACTUAL age of sail the notion of women at sea was, on the surface, fiercely resisted. Not all of those who opposed the idea, however, were aware of the truth, which was that for more than three-hundred years women had lived and worked alongside men aboard British ships. Although in the British Royal Navy, the presence of women at sea was a known fact by many, on record the truth was officially ignored, even hidden. By some, it was thought that a woman on board ship brought bad luck, that a female presence not only distracted men from their work, but they also called forth supernatural winds that would sink a ship and drown the men. Still, enough official records exist today to prove that there were women aboard British naval vessels and other sailing ships from as early as the time of Henry VIII.
Why would a young woman want to go to sea? History provides us with several reasons. For instance, boredom alone might prompt a young lady to take to the sea. Perhaps her brother or cousin, or several young men in her village had summoned the courage to trade their family farm life for that of a seafaring man and upon returning home brought back alluring tales of fun and high adventure, thus prompting a more adventurous young lady to want to follow suit. Or perhaps she was simply following the man she loved as illustrated in many a . . .
BAWDY BALLADS
One of the more popular reasons given for a woman enlisting in the navy or marines in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, or earlier, was that she was seeking her lost lover or husband who’d either run off to sea or been forced into service by a press gang. The ‘lost lover’ theme was popular in England for several centuries, so much so that it spawned many a British ballad, which was sung with relish