The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright / Ann M. Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Ann M., Author.

Contributor:

Annie Burr Lewis Fund, associated with work.

Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund, associated with work.

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheelwright, Esther, 1696-1780.

Wheelwright, Esther.

Ursulines--Québec (Province)--Biography.

Ursulines.

Nuns--Québec (Province)--Biography.

Nuns.

Québec.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

TIMELINE: Wars of the Northeastern Borderlands, 1636-1783

A NOTE ON SPELLING AND TERMINOLOGY

THE JOHN AND MARY SNELL WHEELWRIGHT FAMILY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: ESTHER WHEELWRIGHT

CHAPTER TWO: MALI AMONG THE WABANAKI

CHAPTER THREE: ESTHER ANGLAISE

CHAPTER FOUR: SISTER MARIE-JOSEPH DE L'ENFANT JÉSUS

CHAPTER FIVE: MOTHER ESTHER

CHAPTER SIX: ESTHER SUPERIOR

CHAPTER SEVEN: ESTHER ZELATRIX

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300224627

0300224621

OCLC:

1041991711