A&S - "Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore

[hakerh]

Northern Lights is coming up. I won the category of Research Paper last year, but in case anyone is looking for my paper ("Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore) online there, I've had to ask for it to be taken down from the site. Not because of anything negative; rather, I want to see if I can get it

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[a_kosmos]

Cool sounding research. I once wrote a paper on Puritan infanticide narratives.

[hakerh]

Wow, that sounds nifty. What were your primary sources for that?

[a_kosmos]

The Puritans were really into confession narratives, so there are narratives for everything: pirates, murderers, adulterers.... The sad thing was that a lot of the women who killed their babies were indentured servants who had been raped by their masters. AND for a long time if women became pregnant during their indenture, time was added to the indenture.

A lot of the narratives were transcribed by others and had to be signed with an X because the women couldn't read or write.

[hakerh]

Yep, I'm aware of the confession narrative genre (I've done a *ton* of research and classwork on the 16th-17th centuries). :) Have you read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book Good Wives? It discusses the ideological roles and goals for women in the 17th and 18th centuries. It's fascinating reading.

I was more asking for a couple specific titles. :)

[a_kosmos]

Ahhh... I don't really remember the titles. I think I wrote it in 1999....

[hakerh]

Fair enough. :) I was just curious.