The Jamestown brides : the story of England's "Maids for Virginia" /
In 1621, nearly fifteen years after the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the Virginia Company funded another voyage of colonists to the New World. This time, however, their ships carried fifty-six young women. Their ages ranged from sixteen to twenty-eight, they were of good character and prov...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Witness
- Part 1. England and its Virginian colony
- The Marmaduke maids
- The Warwick women
- A woman's place
- Point of departure
- Of hogs and women
- La belle sauvage
- Maids to the rescue
- Intermezzo: Maidens' voyage
- When stormie winds do blow
- Land ho!
- Part 2. Virginia
- Arrival at Jamestown
- The choosing
- Dispersal
- Catastrophe
- The end of the affair
- The crossbow maker's sister
- The planter's wife
- The cordwainer's daughter
- Captured by Indians
- Endnote: return to Jamestown
- Appendix: A list of the maids.