Author Archive: Rebecca Mascull

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Females on ships in the age of sail – from women dressed as men to lone travellers

Females on ships in the age of sail – from women dressed as men to lone travellers

My second novel, SONG OF THE SEA MAID, is set in the mid-C18th and my main character Dawnay Price needs to travel in order to do what she wants to do. She is a scientist – or as they’d say in those days, a natural philosopher – and she wants to study the flora and […]

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Song of the Sea Maid and Prehistoric Women

Song of the Sea Maid and Prehistoric Women

My second novel, SONG OF THE SEA MAID, tells the tale of Dawnay Price, an orphaned girl in London in the 1730s who stumbles upon the good fortune to find a benefactor and be educated. It is clear from her earliest days – lying on a hard bed and counting windowpanes, multiplying them in her […]

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