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Title The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century / Martha Hodes.
Author Hodes, Martha Elizabeth.
Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B CONNOLLY    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description 384 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-360) and index.
Contents A story and a history -- A carpenter's wife -- Yankee in the deep South -- Servant and washerwoman -- From widow to bride -- The sea captain's wife -- Hurricane -- Searching for Eunice.
Subject Connolly, Eunice Richardson Stone, 1831-1877.
Women -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
ISBN 0393052664 : $24.95