During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling
industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men
to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain
Ahab Had a Wife , Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of
sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries,
shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church
records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city
directories--to reconstruct the lives of the ""Cape Horn widows""
left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial
whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the
industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century,
tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more
ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives'
compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful
discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime
life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic
development and individual experience. |A social history that
uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose
men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws
from a variety of sources--including women's and men's letters and
diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and
magazines, censuses, and city directories to uncover the women's
often poignant and painful stories.
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