The Jamestown Brides - The Story of England's Maids for Virginia

Jennifer Potter explores the lives of the fifty-six women who volunteered to leave their lives in England and travel to the Jamestown colony in 1621.

About the author

Jennifer Potter is author of four novels and five works of nonfiction, most recently Strange Blooms, The Rose: A True History and Seven Flowers. As Royal Literary Fund (RFL) Consultant Fellow, she inspires good writing among doctoral students and younger academics, and she was recently appointed one of the first RLF Fellows at the British Library.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Potter, Jennifer Potter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780190942632
• ISBN: 978-0-19-094263-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, European History, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Local History, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, Central Southern States, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period), 1603–1649 (Jacobean and Early Stuart period), US South