Screen LibraryThe 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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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, Connecticut : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. |
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"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. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300234572 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0300234570 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780300218213 (hardback : alkaline paper) 0300218214 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BX4705 |
| CLC: | B979.971.1 |
| Call Number: | B979.971.1/W566L |
| Contents: |
Timeline: Wars of the Northeastern Borderlands, 1636-1783 -- A note on spelling and terminology -- Genealogy of the John and Mary Snell Wheelwright Family -- Acknowledgments -- Map of the travels of Esther Wheelwright -- Esther Wheelwright -- Mail among the Wabanaki -- Esther Anglaise -- Sister Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant Jésus -- Mother Esther -- Esther Superior -- Esther Zelatrix. |