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The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
a woman in world history
By Colley, Linda
- ISBN
- 978-0-37542-153-2
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
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Reviewed on July 15, 2007
Research undertaken for a previous book,Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 , introduced Colley (history, Princeton Univ.) to Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85), a middle-class British woman from a family of mariners and merchants and herself an adventurer. Colley, a disciple of the unpretentious school of historical writing championed by her mentor, social historian J.H. Plumb, uses a trove of family writings, including first-person journals, to piece together ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
