Isobel Gunn

Type

Book

Authors

Thomas, Audrey Callahan

ISBN 10

067088684X

ISBN 13

9780670886845

Tags

Hudson's Bay Company, Passing (Identity), Pregnant women, Gender identity, Scotland--Orkney, Canada--Canadian Northwest, Male impersonators, Canada

Abstract

In 1806 Isobel Gunn, a young Orkney woman, disguised herself as a man and lived among the men of The Company of Adventurers in Canada. She managed to keep her true gender a secret for a year before she was discovered to be a woman about to give birth. Based on a few historical facts, this novel questions how a woman managed to maintain her disguise as a man in a harsh environment, and how she came to be pregnant without her co-workers discovering she was a woman.

Description

Genre/Form: Fiction
Historical fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Audrey Callahan Thomas
ISBN: 067088684X 9780670886845
OCLC Number: 43913325
Description: xii, 230 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Audrey Thomas.

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