The female wanderer : a tale of truth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Cordelia, author.

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male impersonators--Fiction.

Male impersonators.

Women sailors--Fiction.

Women sailors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 pages).

Other Title:

Female wanderer

Notes:

"Containing an account of her nativity, parentage, &c and a short sketch of her courtship with the man on whose account she was exiled from her parentage, at the age of 18. Forced from home, without a protector, she dressed herself as a male, in order to travel to Buffalo, at which place her lover had been about eleven months, where she arrived and took lodgings at the same house, undiscovered by her lover; and after becoming acquainted with his design of marrying another, resolved on leaving him for ever. Accordingly she started again alone, went to New York, and shipped to N. Orleans, from thence to Liverpool, and then home to New-York; from thence to Albany, Utica, Sangerfield, Brookfield, &c. At which last places she kept a school three years, still in male habiliments. From thence she travelled on her way home through Utica, Johnstown, Fundays-Bush, Galway, &c. &c. Interspersed with many curious anecdotes."

Attributed to Cordelia Stark.

Signed (page 2): "Cordelia."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

1162569544