{"product_id":"2940014177535","title":"18th and 19th Century English Women at Sea","description":"18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a fascinating and entertaining account of the three types of women one might find, legally or illegally, on board a ship during this time period: prostitutes, officer's and midshipmen's wives (as well as other female passengers during wartime) and women masquerading as sailors or crewmen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColorful but factual accounts of surprising and certainly, little-known, incidents are drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, from diaries of such figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, and autobiographies written in the late 1700s by women such as Mary Lacy, who took to the sea masquerading as men, and lived to tell of their experiences. Noted historians who have published works on the same subject are quoted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Clay's Colonial American historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel, praised by The Library Journal and Booklist. To escape an arranged marriage, Catherine leaves England for Jamestown in search of her childhood sweetheart. What she finds in the New World nearly destroys her! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel. When four English girls travel to the New World on a Bride Ship to marry settlers and start families, they are instead shocked to discover that someone in Jamestown wants them all dead!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY is another popular historical suspense novel by Marilyn Clay. Set in Philadelphia in 1776, Quaker Betsy Ross sets out to uncover who killed her beloved husband John Ross, but is instead drawn into the dangerous and confusing underworld of spies and double agents. Available in print and e-book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Clay's Regency-set mysteries include: MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE and MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, all available worldwide in print and Ebook.","brand":"Marilyn Clay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070399430896,"sku":"2940014177535","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014177535_p0.jpg?v=1763602175","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014177535","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}