TY  - BOOK
AU  - Little,Ann M.
ED  - Annie Burr Lewis Fund,
ED  - Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund,
TI  - The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright
T2  - The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
SN  - 9780300224627
AV  - BX4543.8 .L58 2017
U1  - 255.90092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Wheelwright, Esther,
KW  - Ursulines
KW  - Québec (Province)
KW  - fast
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Biography
KW  - Religieuses
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Québec
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund; Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Esther Wheelwright --; Mail among the Wabanaki --; Esther Anglaise --; Sister Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant Jésus --; Mother esther --; Esther Superior --; Esther Zelatrix; Specialized
N2  - 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
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