The female soldier, or, The surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell, born in the city of Worcester : who took upon herself the name of James Gray, and, being deserted by her husband, put on mens apparel, and travelled to Coventry in quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. Guise's regiment of foot, and marched with that regiment to Carlisle, in the time of the rebellion in Scotland : shewing what happened to her in that city, and her desertion from that regiment : also a full and true account of her enlisting afterwards into Fraser's regiment of marines ... : the whole containing the most surprising incidents that have happened in any preceeding age : wherein is laid open all her adventures, in mens cloaths, for near five years, without her sex being ever discovered
1750
L2010F195 1750
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Title
The female soldier, or, The surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell, born in the city of Worcester : who took upon herself the name of James Gray, and, being deserted by her husband, put on mens apparel, and travelled to Coventry in quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. Guise's regiment of foot, and marched with that regiment to Carlisle, in the time of the rebellion in Scotland : shewing what happened to her in that city, and her desertion from that regiment : also a full and true account of her enlisting afterwards into Fraser's regiment of marines ... : the whole containing the most surprising incidents that have happened in any preceeding age : wherein is laid open all her adventures, in mens cloaths, for near five years, without her sex being ever discovered
Variant Title
Surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell
Edition
[1st ed.]
Published
London : Printed for and sold by R. Walker ..., 1750.
Description
viii, 9-187, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] fold.) : ill., port. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call Number
L2010F195 1750
System Control No.
(OCoLC)15555270
Note
First edition.
Signatures: [A]4 B-Z4 2A2.
Portrait of Hannah Snell on frontispiece included in pagination.
Shortly after her husband's desertion & death of her child, Snell decided to dislguise herself as a man & become a soldier. Assuming her brother-in-law's name, James Gray, she enlisted in a ship & survived detection, depite her injury.
Bound in quarter sheep; paper ms. label on spine.
Ms. inscriptions on front free endpaper & title: Ex libris, R. ... Foster; James Andrews.
Digitized image available [one plate].
Signatures: [A]4 B-Z4 2A2.
Portrait of Hannah Snell on frontispiece included in pagination.
Shortly after her husband's desertion & death of her child, Snell decided to dislguise herself as a man & become a soldier. Assuming her brother-in-law's name, James Gray, she enlisted in a ship & survived detection, depite her injury.
Bound in quarter sheep; paper ms. label on spine.
Ms. inscriptions on front free endpaper & title: Ex libris, R. ... Foster; James Andrews.
Digitized image available [one plate].
Indexed In
ESTC N6597
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