Product Description
by Marilyn Clay (Author)
18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the type of women one would have normally found, legally or illegally, on board ship during this time period, namely-prostitutes; officers and midshipmen's wives and other female passengers, and women masquerading as sailors or crewmen. Colorful but factual accounts of little-known incidents in the book are drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, from diaries of such notable figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, and from autobiographies written in the late 1700s by women such as Mary Lacy, who took to the sea masquerading as men, and lived to tell of their experiences. Noted historians who have published works on the same subject are quoted.
MARILYN CLAY is the acclaimed author of over twenty books. Her most recent novels DECEPTIONS: A COLONIAL JAMESTOWN NOVEL, A PETTICOAT AND LAMBSKIN GLOVES and BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY are all set in Colonial America and are available both in print and as e-books. Marilyn Clay's newest novel STALKING A KILLER, a contemporary murder mystery, is also available in print and as an e-book. For more information on the author, visit the Marilyn Clay Author website. For information on Marilyn Clay's international newsletter, THE REGENCY PLUME, visit The Regency plume website at http: theregencyplume.tripod.com/Author Biography
MARILYN CLAY is the acclaimed author of over twenty books and respected historian of the English Regency period. For sixteen years she published THE REGENCY PLUME, an international newsletter focused on the English Regency period. All back issues of THE REGENCY PLUME and related research material is still available for purchase from THE REGENCY PLUME website. MARILYN CLAY authored six Regency romance novels, all of which have been translated to foreign languages and are now available on the web as e-books. Marilyn's Regency romance novels include, FELICITY'S FOLLY, THE UNSUITABLE SUITOR, MISS ELIZA'S GENTLEMAN CALLER, THE UPPITY EARL, A PRETTY PUZZLE and BEWITCHING LORD WINTERTON. Marilyn Clay's most recent novels DECEPTIONS: A COLONIAL JAMESTOWN NOVEL, A PETTICOAT AND LAMBSKIN GLOVES and BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY are all set in Colonial America and are available both in print and as e-books. Her newest novel STALKING A KILLER, a contemporary murder mystery, is also available in print and as an e-book. For more information on the author, visit the Marilyn Clay Author website at http: //theregencyplume.tripod.com/marilynclay/ MARILYN CLAY is a former University Editor for The University of Texas. For many years she owned her own Graphics Design Studio in Dallas and also served as Creative Director for an international fashion magazine. She has written two books featuring her beloved pets, DAISY GROWS UP: A KITTEN BABY BOOK and SAILOR'S NEW BED, both of which are available in print and as e-books. Marilyn Clay is currently at work on a Regency-set mystery novel.
