- Additional Authors
- Paul, Almira, 1790-
- Description
- 24 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens
- Subject
- Note
- Includes first-person accounts of Ellen Stephens and Almira Paul as well as a brief notice of Anne Jane Thornton.
- "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.
- "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."
- Title-vignette.
- "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."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 91290.
- Reproduction (note)
- OCLC
- TGPSM09-B1966
- Author
Stephens, Ellen.
- Title
The cabin boy wife, or, Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens [electronic resource].
- Imprint
New-York : Printed for C.E. [i.e., C.F.] Daniels, 1840.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Local Note
Biography; Women; Maritime.
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- Added Author
Paul, Almira, 1790-