
The Many Captivities Of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series In Eighteenth-Century Culture And History)
An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial AmericaBorn 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 s...
Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; Reprint edition (March 20, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780300234572
ISBN-13: 978-0300234572
ASIN: 0300234570
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 955509
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“After seeing a picture of this oil painting and another depiction of her being taken by the Abnaki Indians, I was curious about what her life was like and how she got to be a nun. The book is well researched and tells such an interesting story. Thi...”
end 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.
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