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“Though she wasn’t a man, she was as good as one”: Labor, Seapower, and Nineteenth-Century Seafaring Stewardesses

By Julia Stryker On March 7th, 1826, HMS Blonde rescued six emaciated survivors from the wreck of the Frances Mary. They included two women: the captain’s wife and Ann Saunders, a young woman hired to serve her.  They had spent twenty-two days adrift, crowded in the main top of the half-submerged wreck, kept afloat by […]

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