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 InfoNew-York : Printed for C.E. [i.e., C.F.] Daniels, 1840.
Description24 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Portion of title Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteBiography; Women; Maritime.
Local note2009A626000.
General noteIncludes 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 noteTitle-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 noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 91290.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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