Connolly Eunice Richardson Stone - The sea captains wife: a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century

Few researchers have the imagination or tenacity to reconstruct a lost life as carefully as Hodes has donean absorbing account of a life reclaimed from obscurity.

Joyce Appleby, Times Literary Supplement

[A] gem of historical writing and research. [Hodes] has produced another outstanding work showing the complexities of 19th-century racism. [A] compelling story and graceful writing.

Library Journal , starred review

Hodes reconstructs the intriguing and unusual life of Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly. [Her prose] is lucid and her account is engaging.

Publishers Weekly

Told by award-winning historian Martha Hodes, Eunice Connollys story will fascinate you.

Book-of-the-Month Club

What a terrific book! I could hardly put it down. Eunices story is so poignant but at the same time, in many ways, a story of triumph over adversity.

James McPherson, author of the Pulitzer
Prizewinning Battle Cry of Freedom

[Hodess] remarkable new book, The Sea Captains Wife , resourcefully gathers scraps of evidence to stitch together the hard-scrabble life of one white woman. [A] gripping tale of a courageous, resilient and unconventional woman.

John David Smith, Raleigh News and Observer,
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A touching and captivating story.

Paula Hunt, San Antonio Express-News

An excellent history of a family as well as a time.

Civil War News

Eunice Richardson Stone Connollys life is a road map to learning about 19th-century America. Those who love books about history will revel in the books detail.

Cape Cod Times

Hodes vividly tells of the life of Eunice Connolly.

Harvard Magazine

Recommended reading in Biography & Memoir by Publishing News , London

Lends historical authenticity and the drama and characterization of fictionmaking it a biography hard to put down.

Midwest Book Review

An engrossing story The Sea Captains Wife comes highly recommended. A mesmerising story which truly brings past and present closer together.

Nautilus UK Telegraph

[A] detective story, a history of the period and a travelogue all rolled into onethought provoking, a pleasure to read.

Nautical Magazine

I couldnt put it down. I was with Eunice, heart and soul, on every page. A gripping story.

Paulette Jiles, author of the national bestseller Enemy Women

A monument both to a woman who otherwise would have been utterly lost to history and to the historians ability to do justice to the dead. The Sea Captains Wife shows us how powerful an ordinary life can be in the hands of an extraordinary storyteller.

Jan Lewis, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter

The fascinating true story of an impoverished 19th-century white widow who defies convention to marry a wealthy black sea captain. Her story will fascinate you.

Literary Guild

A marvelous book. It is brilliantly researched and beautifully written. With unerring artistry, Martha Hodes leads us through her archives and into the fascinating story of an American family.

Ann Fabian, author of The Unvarnished Truth

[An] amazing feat of historical recovery. Hodess engagement with documents, old houses, personal letters, and descendants is captivating, as is Eunice herself.

Patricia Cline Cohen, author of The Murder of Helen Jewett

The book will by turns engage and surprise both those who know little about the history of that time and those of us who think we do. A wonderful read.

Leslie Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery

With extraordinary sensitivity, Hodes persuades old documents and living descendants to give up this heartbreaking and unsettling story.[ The Sea Captains Wife has] the pacing and sweep of an epic film.

Scott A. Sandage, author of Born Losers