Elizabeth Marsh (1735–1785) was an Englishwoman who was held captive in Morocco for a brief period after the ship she was traveling from Gibraltar to England to unite with her fiancé was intercepted by a Moroccan corsair and overtaken by its crew. [4]

2021年5月19日 · Elizabeth Marsh died in India in 1785 and was buried in Calcutta cemetery, leaving behind a rich historical source in her personal account of her sufferings at the hands of Moroccan pirates. Her compelling narrative paints a portrait of a complex woman who led a bohemian and adventurous lifestyle, strong in the face of adversity, but also ...

2018年6月6日 · In 1756, 20-year-old Englishwoman Elizabeth Marsh was taken captive by Moroccan pirates. Her manuscript diary in the UCLA Special Collections shows how she shaped the narrative that she eventually published anonymously in 1769 titled The Female Captive, writing herself into the history of the modern, globalizing world.

She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive explorations in eastern and southern India. A creature of multiple frontiers, she spent time in London, Menorca, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Africa.

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Elizabeth Marsh composed the Narrative of her Captivity while living in Chatham (according to a handwritten note in William Musgrave's copy of The Female Captive), around 1760. Her husband, whose mercantile business had failed in England, was attempting to start over in India.

2008年11月11日 · The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is a fascinating tale of a world we cannot remember or recognize. Elizabeth Marsh, of questionable race, origins, and status, traveled the world and saw the ways it interacted with different people.

2007年1月1日 · Elizabeth Marsh, 1735-1785, was an English woman (and writer) who was conceived in Jamaica, born in England, lived on the British holdings in the Mediterranean and in London and elsewhere in England, and died in India.

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman’s extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.