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The Lady Tars: The Autobiographies of Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Anne Talbot
Out of Print for over 200 Years, the original text of three of the most remarkable naval biographies ever written. We know that women served as sailors in the Royal Navy as early as 1650. Unfortunately, what little we know of these women is based largely on second- and third-hand accounts and deductions. In general, few seamen (and even fewer sea-women) knew how to write.
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Very hard to understand how any one of these women could have lived for years on a ship, in tight quarters with others, and never have their true sex discovered.
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