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Agnès Delahaye, « Seminar 'Always watching for distant sails’? New England Women and the Sea, 1790-1890 », Europe’s Association for Early American Studies, ID : 10670/1.xnod0p
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Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Maritime History / Studies, Social History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies Date and Time: 18 May 2021 | 5.15pm - 6.30pm- UK In 1896, American author Sarah Orne Jewett observed that, in a small village on the Maine coast, the men and women alike had ‘a far-off look that sought the horizon…always watching for distant sails.’ As Jewett made clear, boys and girls learnt their ‘far-off look’ from different vantage points: boys from the...