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In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution.
Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans' benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans' benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution.
Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans' benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans' benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
Über den Autor
Alfred F. Young
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations and maps
Prologue: “A lively comely young nymph. . . dressing in man’s apparal has been discovered”
PART ONE: DEBORAH SAMSON
1. Deborah
2. The Rebel
PART TWO: “ROBERT SHURTLIFF”
3. The Continental Army
4. The Light Infantryman
5. The General’s Waiter
PART THREE: “THE CELEBRATED MRS. GANNETT”
6. A Gannett in Sharon
7. A Gannett on Tour
PART FOUR: “OLD SOLDIER”
8. Public Woman
9. Private Woman
PART FIVE: PASSING INTO HISTORY
10. Genteel and Plebian
11. Lost and Found
Epilogue: The Seagull
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Prologue: “A lively comely young nymph. . . dressing in man’s apparal has been discovered”
PART ONE: DEBORAH SAMSON
1. Deborah
2. The Rebel
PART TWO: “ROBERT SHURTLIFF”
3. The Continental Army
4. The Light Infantryman
5. The General’s Waiter
PART THREE: “THE CELEBRATED MRS. GANNETT”
6. A Gannett in Sharon
7. A Gannett on Tour
PART FOUR: “OLD SOLDIER”
8. Public Woman
9. Private Woman
PART FIVE: PASSING INTO HISTORY
10. Genteel and Plebian
11. Lost and Found
Epilogue: The Seagull
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
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Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780679761853 |
ISBN-10: | 0679761853 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Young, Alfred F. |
Hersteller: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 203 x 132 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Alfred F. Young |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.03.2005 |
Gewicht: | 0,481 kg |
Über den Autor
Alfred F. Young
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations and maps
Prologue: “A lively comely young nymph. . . dressing in man’s apparal has been discovered”
PART ONE: DEBORAH SAMSON
1. Deborah
2. The Rebel
PART TWO: “ROBERT SHURTLIFF”
3. The Continental Army
4. The Light Infantryman
5. The General’s Waiter
PART THREE: “THE CELEBRATED MRS. GANNETT”
6. A Gannett in Sharon
7. A Gannett on Tour
PART FOUR: “OLD SOLDIER”
8. Public Woman
9. Private Woman
PART FIVE: PASSING INTO HISTORY
10. Genteel and Plebian
11. Lost and Found
Epilogue: The Seagull
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Prologue: “A lively comely young nymph. . . dressing in man’s apparal has been discovered”
PART ONE: DEBORAH SAMSON
1. Deborah
2. The Rebel
PART TWO: “ROBERT SHURTLIFF”
3. The Continental Army
4. The Light Infantryman
5. The General’s Waiter
PART THREE: “THE CELEBRATED MRS. GANNETT”
6. A Gannett in Sharon
7. A Gannett on Tour
PART FOUR: “OLD SOLDIER”
8. Public Woman
9. Private Woman
PART FIVE: PASSING INTO HISTORY
10. Genteel and Plebian
11. Lost and Found
Epilogue: The Seagull
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780679761853 |
ISBN-10: | 0679761853 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Young, Alfred F. |
Hersteller: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 203 x 132 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Alfred F. Young |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.03.2005 |
Gewicht: | 0,481 kg |
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