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Nantucket's Daring Daughters

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The Daring Daughters of Nantucket Island: How Island Women from the Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries Lived a Life Contrary to Other American Women

By Jascin N. Leonardo Finger

This book is a study of the women of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century and the factors that allowed them to live a life that their counterparts in the rest of America did not necessarily enjoy. Divided into two sections, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the time before the idea of woman’s sphere fully developed, and the nineteenth century when the predominant belief in American society was that there were two separate spheres for women and men, this book details the factors that allowed women on Nantucket to lead a life of independence and freedom and compares their world to that of other maritime communities, as well as Quaker communities. Well-known and lesser-known island women are discussed, as well as how their experiences had wider influences off the island into the late nineteenth century and beyond.

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
154 pages

$20.00 includes shipping 

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Nantucket's Daring Daughters
Jascin N. Leonardo Finger

Nantucket's Daring Daughters

Jascin N. Leonardo Finger has served as curator of the Mitchell House at the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association since 1999.  She holds a Master’s degree in History.  Her passions are her family, all things Nantucket, good food, weaving, and photographing historic architecture.  The island has been a part of her life since she was introduced to it at age 1½ by her parents.  She lives year-round on the island with her husband, a naval architect, their son, and their Siberian Husky who takes them on long walks from one glorious end of the island to the other.

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