#  MHS Book Talk: The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright 

 



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 **June 28, 2017** 

 06:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

   ![The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/history/files/esther_wheelwright.jpg?itok=ot_vGON3) 

 

Registration Required: <https://www.masshist.org/calendar> There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm  
**Ann Little**, Colorado State University

 Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order’s only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright’s life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. Ann Little leads us through her life and the communities of girls and women around her.



 

 



 

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