tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post614967369984888521..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Sarah Bishop: cave-dwelling recluseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91301863617921282812012-10-05T22:18:59.707-05:002012-10-05T22:18:59.707-05:00I found that the 1839 text quoted above was publis...I found that the 1839 text quoted above was published earlier in <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2008/06/learning-from-1831-schoolbook.html" rel="nofollow">an 1831 schoolbook</a>. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-79164550099444199222007-02-02T19:52:00.000-05:002007-02-02T19:52:00.000-05:00Understanding the context of the times is indeed i...Understanding the context of the times is indeed important, and I did a bit more of that necessary work for my <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2007/02/sarah-bishop-finding-context.html">next posting</a>.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-76769452084085303932007-02-02T14:20:00.000-05:002007-02-02T14:20:00.000-05:00I think there are other possible reasons why this ...I think there are other possible reasons why this "contemporary" account should be "read" within its own time. I think you will be hard-pressed to find any account anywhere--even in private diary entries--of someone having experienced a rape of any kind. It may simply have been a "sign of the times" that certain things were not written about in this case that have to do with this individual's experience, including the alleged employment on a ship. Unfortunate, events like that in anyone's--let alone a woman's--life in that time period would have to be speculative on the part of the reader/researcher.pilgrimchickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13808106043964544413noreply@blogger.com