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Heroines and Harlots
Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail | David Cordingly
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Creme_de_la_them
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Pickpick

So good! Cordingly relies heavily on primary sources to give the reader a genuine look into the lives of women connected to the sea, primarily throughout Europe and North America. I loved the whole book and I‘m buying at least 2 copies for friends.

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Mitch
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This is the beautiful Sailors Reading Room, looking out to sea in Southwold. Built in 1864 to provide a quiet place for sailors and fisherman to meet, read and chat rather than spend their time and money in the pub. Today you can still walk in from the beach, shut out the hubbub of life and cosy up in an armchair and read - and you don‘t even have to be a sailor

charl08 Lovely! 5y
Severnmeadows What wonderful pictures! Next time I‘m in Southwold I‘ll visit. 5y
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jenniferw88
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Mehso-so

Sorry @kaysworld1 - I really wanted to like this book for #newyearwhodis but it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I'm going to try to read more but I need to focus on #lmpbc and #whodunituk for a while. @monalyisha

kaysworld1 No problems Hun. We are never going to always like each others books 💞 6y
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jenniferw88
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Books & chocolate are a given, but went for lipstick as my House of Colour stylist told me that even if you don't do the rest of your make-up you should always do your lips!

#pick3 @GypsyKat

Reveurs Books, tea and pjs 🤓 6y
GypsyKat Great choices! ❤️ 6y
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kaysworld1
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Currently reading Heroines and harlots by David cordingly
Woman at sea in the great age of sail.
#reading ##piratelife #harlots #read #books #bookwormsunite
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Sophoclessweetheart Oooh! Sounds good x 6y
kaysworld1 @Sorceryandswords it does doesn't it, I'm hoping for some scandless sex stuff and pirate's 😈😂 hahahaha 6y
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PirateJenny
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I am sad for Mary Read that Anne Bonny gets all the cool stuff (though she has a tea on Adagio and is in Assassin's Creed). Mary had the more interesting life of these two #femalepirates who sailed together but we know she died in jail giving birth. Nobody knows what happened to Anne. #PiratesLife #WhatAWayToLive

CrowCAH Awesome action figure! 😍 7y
PirateJenny @CrowCAH i got two of them for my birthday the same year! So one is at home and open the other is at work and in the box. I think you can still get her online 7y
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CaseyMoore
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Pickpick

A good, solid history of women involved in every way of sailing in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries. Cordingly looks at women who masqueraded as sailors, women involved with sailors, and women who saved sailors.

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CaseyMoore
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Today's reading (and beer). The Oceanography Merit Badge book is so I can help my son, plus these always serve as nice primers on a subject. The beer is Urban South Charming Wit. New brewery here in New Orleans.

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CaseyMoore
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William Brown: this is one of those stories that could make a great film - a black woman masquerading as a man on sailing ships in the 1800's. And even when unmasked, she continued to do the work.