PDF⋙ The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Ann M. Little
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Ann M. Little The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Ann M. Little PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order’s only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright’s life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communitie...