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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
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 Starks book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf.Patrick OBrian
About the Author:
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 Starks book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf.Patrick OBrian
Suzanne J. Stark (1926-2015) was an artist, teacher, editor and freelance writer.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0712666958
- ISBN 13 9780712666954
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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