Beyond Bleeding and Blistering
Until the twentieth century, with a few notable exceptions, there was little science involved in the practice of medicine. Yet there were some attempts made to save the lives of [...]
Until the twentieth century, with a few notable exceptions, there was little science involved in the practice of medicine. Yet there were some attempts made to save the lives of [...]
Thanks to Lisa Goodwin, the Women who Sail New England and the Between the Lines Book Club for inviting me to your discussion of The Surgeon's Mate! As promised, here [...]
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Beyond Lady Barbara; Women as Portrayed in British Naval Fiction by Linda Collison This is the unedited draft of an article that first appeared in the November 2020 issue of [...]
Navy Wives Aboard British Warships A critique of Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister; The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen Jane Austen was a social realist in portraying everyday life [...]
John Nichol, mariner. I would have liked to have known him. Re-reading his episodic memoir (I first read it at sea on a Pacific voyage - the same waters he [...]
Women have always been aboard ship. As passengers, girlfriends, and wives. As sailors, surgeons, nurses, helmsmen, and shipmasters. Women aboard — I got caught up in the history back in [...]
To visit Reykjavik's Maritime Museum you would think there were no seawomen in Iceland's history. (As of November, 2017, that is.) I first came across the mention of Icelandic female [...]
Iceland's original immigrant song may have been the poems composed by the helmsmen and women of the open rowboats, to aid them in remembering choice fishing spots. The first immigrants [...]
Transgenders serving on ships is nothing new. I’ve long been interested in women on ships in the Age of Sail -- particularly women posing as men, passing as men, doing [...]