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Studies the roles of women who lived and worked on British warships in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Stark investigates the Royal Navy's custom of letting prostitutes live with crews in port, as well as the wives who chose to live and fight beside their men, sometimes in male disguise.
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"For a very long time now I have delighted in histories, letters, records, and memoirs to do with the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century; but Suzanne Stark's book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf."--Patrick O'Brian
"Female Tars is well-written, and accessible to both academic and casual readers. This study expands our understanding of life aboard Royal Navy warships during the age of sail. In doing so it brings into context the social and economic situations women faced during the long eighteenth century with the wartime pressures faced by the Royal Navy to keep warships manned. The Naval Institute Press should be commended to bring such an important work back into print." --Naval Historical Foundation
"Despite its age, Female Tars remains an interesting and insightful work about a still little known aspect of life at sea, a subject needing more research." --Strategy Page
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"Female Tars is well-written, and accessible to both academic and casual readers. This study expands our understanding of life aboard Royal Navy warships during the age of sail. In doing so it brings into context the social and economic situations women faced during the long eighteenth century with the wartime pressures faced by the Royal Navy to keep warships manned. The Naval Institute Press should be commended to bring such an important work back into print." --Naval Historical Foundation
"Despite its age, Female Tars remains an interesting and insightful work about a still little known aspect of life at sea, a subject needing more research." --Strategy Page
Suzanne J. Stark (1926-2015) was an artist, teacher, editor and freelance writer.
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0094762201
- ISBN 13 9780094762206
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages224
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