The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright / Ann M. Little.

By:

Little, Ann M [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historyPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300224627
0300224621

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

255.90092 23

LOC classification:

BX4543.8 .L58 2017

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Esther Wheelwright -- Mail among the Wabanaki -- Esther Anglaise -- Sister Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant Jésus -- Mother esther -- Esther Superior -- Esther Zelatrix.

Summary: An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America. 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.

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Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America. 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.

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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2016).

Esther Wheelwright -- Mail among the Wabanaki -- Esther Anglaise -- Sister Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant Jésus -- Mother esther -- Esther Superior -- Esther Zelatrix.

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