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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Elizabeth Marsh, the daughter of a shipwright, was conceived in Jamaica, was born in England in 1735, and died in Calcutta in 1785. Marsh's extraordinarily peripatetic life illuminates not only the vast global changes of that period, both for the British Empire and for private citizens, but also the almost limitless resources of her own indomitable spirit. Colley shows how Marsh's ties, through a prosperous uncle, to the Royal Navy, were essential to her ...

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