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Public perceptions of sailors' wives in eighteenth-century England
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-20)Eighteenth-century England was a time of heightened activity for the Royal Navy. Men both joined or were pressed into the navy by growing numbers to defeat the island nation from its enemies, leaving behind their loved ...