The cabin boy wife, or, Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens.
| Author/creator | Stephens, Ellen |
| Other author | Paul, Almira, 1790- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New-York : Printed for C.E. [i.e., C.F.] Daniels, 1840. |
| Description | 24 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Biography; Women; Maritime. |
| Local note | 2009A626000. |
| General note | Includes first-person accounts of Ellen Stephens and Almira Paul as well as a brief notice of Anne Jane Thornton. |
| General note | "The publisher of the foregoing narratives ... deems it a duty to assure his readers that they may be relied on as facts as they did really occur, without the shadow of fiction ..."--p. 24. |
| General note | "Who, having been compelled to marry against her will, after experiencing much cruel treatment, was deserted by her husband, and in pursuit of whom (and her infant child), dressed in male attire and obtaining a berth on board of one of the steamers on the Mississippi River as cabin boy, in that capacity made several passages up and down the river in 1839 and '40 without her sex being known or suspected." |
| General note | Title-vignette. |
| General note | "Annexed is the still more surprising exploits of Almira Paul, who garbed as a male in the capacity of cook, &c., served on board several English and American vessels for the space of three years without betraying her sex." |
| General note | Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 91290. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |