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The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection G537.K5 G43 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidd, Sarah.
- Kidd, William, -1701.
- Kidd, William.
- Pirates--Great Britain--Biography.
- Pirates.
- Women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Women.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.
- Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. Few know that he had an accomplice who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies: his wife, Sarah Kidd. Geanacopoulos reconstructs Sarah Kidd's life: Love, treasure, motherhood and survival. Sarah not only survived her husband, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York's most prominent citizens. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Sarah's new world
- William Cox and the she-merchant - Mayhem and tragedy
- Debts and bills
- Dead men tell no tales
- The golden age of piracy
- Fletcher's friends
- London
- Provisioning in New York
- Waiting
- Emott's secret
- Taking precautions
- Safe haven on Block Island
- Reunited
- Accomplice
- Buried treasure
- Confronting Bellomont
- Kidd's narrative
- Bellomont's secret
- Imprisoned
- The pirate's wife
- The king's ship
- Newgate
- Kidd's good deed
- Trial
- Tragic news
- New beginnings
- Full circle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781335429841
- 1335429840
- OCLC:
- 1349358188
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