Cindy Lynn Speer's Blog, page 22
October 26, 2015
October 25, 2015
zombeesknees:
themightyglamazon:
gehayi:
queenofeden:
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Daughter of a gun (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ No idea if such a thing existed but surely there had to be girls born on board in the Age of Sail?
*puts on obnoxious historian hat*
*clears throat*
there were actually tons of women and girls on board ships during the age of sail and it’s really cool history that no one!!! ever!!! talks about!!!
like captains of merchant ships used to bring their wives and children on board for long voyages all the time (and of course there were plenty of well known female pirate ship captains, and women cross-dressing as men, and prostitutes that more people seem to know of)
there’s actually a really amazing story of one woman, Mary Ann Patten who was the wife of the captain of this ship called Neptune’s Car. Captain Patten decided that he wanted her onboard with him and she was super about this and learned all about navigation and sailing and everything. so this one voyage they’re going around the tip of south america when her husband gets sick and is bed ridden with a fever right as the ship sails into one of the worst storms any of the crew had ever seen and it looks like they might lose the ship or have to stop
so you know who takes over??? the first mate???
no.
MARY
she took over the whole crew and sailed that ship through freezing water and pack ice and had it coasting smoothly into the san francisco harbour like it was nothing. and she did this all at age 19. while pregnant.
at one point the first mate tried to get the crew to mutiny against her but they all rallied with her and told him to shut the heck up because she obv knew what she was doing.
there’s a great book about women in the age of sail called ‘female tars’ by suzanne stark that i cannot recommend enough and has way more amazing stories and insights about the myriad roles women and girls played aboard ship during that time period.
(sorry i totally didn’t mean to hijack your post i love all of your art and this is gorgeous i just got over excited sorry sorry sorry)
We need links!
Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail by Suzanne Stark
Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea by Joan Druett
Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail by Joan Druett
Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 edited by Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling
Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920 by Joan Druett
Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen
Seafaring Women: Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways and Sailors’ Wives by David Cordingly
The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860 by Mary Chipman Lawrence
Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women: An Untold Maritime History by David Cordingly
I’M GONNA GET A LIBRARY CARD AS SOON AS I GET AN APARTMENT AND READ LITERALLY ALL OF THESE AND WEEP TEARS OF PROUD SISTERHOOD
October 22, 2015
Participating in NaNoWriMo this year? Tell me about your novel!
Reblog or drop by my ask!
Rebelling this year–finishing a novel I started last year. I hit 50k but didn’t finish the ms.
It’s a 1920s steampunk mystery.
YES REBELS ARE MY FAVES
I am a rebel, too! I am using the structure and crazy hedonism of NaNaWriMo to make me finish The Chocolatier’s Ghost, which is a murder mystery/fantasy novel set in a sort of regency feeling place. My main character, Tasmin, finds the murdered body of the local wise woman, and with the help of her husband, William, and the wind sprites who have adopted her, she is going to figure out what happened. I think. I hope. I wrote the first draft and thought it a hot mess, so I’ve stripped away the sub plots and cut back to the main story. So. We shall see.
adventuresoflibrarygirl:
parchmentjunkie:
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new bpc alert! : so, i’ve taken over running the #bookishdinochallenge on my own, and changed the name, but its still as fun and amazing!! i’d love it if you could all join in, or just signal boost for me. I love hosting these challenges, and seeing everyone’s photos. there all so good!
I’ll try to do it next month
One of these days, I’ll actually complete one.
Someday. Someday one of these will get done. Maybe this one!
Woot! I saw this early enough that maybe I can pre-do a week, that’s not cheating, right? Then I can actually (pretend to but not actually) complete one?
landscape-photo-graphy:
Photographer Wakes Up At 5AM To...
Photographer Wakes Up At 5AM To Hike The Transylvanian Mountains And Capture Its Beauty
Photographer Alex Robciuc wakes up at 5AM to capture the scenic beauty of the Transylvanian landscape. He hikes the mountains to obtain a breathtaking view from above and the burst of autumn’s colors in the hills and trees. The five AM work slot allows him to produce a soft hazy and dreamy piece, which captures the light and hues of the landscape masterfully.
October 21, 2015
starboarding:
literature meme | short stories [o1/?] >> ...
literature meme | short stories [o1/?] >> the yellow wallpaper
“There are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all came out of that wallpaper as I did?”
