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The Jamestown Brides is Jennifer Potter's tenth book. Appointed as one of the first Royal Literary Fund Fellows at the British Library, she first came to Virginia to research Strange Blooms, The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants, her celebrated biography of the early seventeenth-century plantsmen, collectors of curiosities ...
Home - Jennifer Potter. About. Collected here are the books I have published over the years, four novels and six works of non-fiction.
19 de nov. de 2019 · The Jamestown Brides lived on Jamestown Island in 1600s New England. Credit: Jennifer Potter. Among the lucky ones who found a husband, three married ancient planters (a term used to describe anyone, male or female, who had arrived in the colony by 1616).
4 de oct. de 2018 · Jennifer Potter chases after the history of the 56 English women who traveled from London to Jamestown in 1621 to become wives of planters in the new Virginia colony.
Jennifer Potter, The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's “Maids for Virginia” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, $29.95). Pp. 384. isbn 978 0 1909 4263 2. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2020. CYNTHIA A. KIERNER. Article. Metrics. Get access Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
Delving into company records and original sources on both sides of the Atlantic, Jennifer Potter tracks the women's footsteps from their homes in England to their new lives in Virginia. Giving voice to these forgotten women of America's early history, she triumphantly invites the reader to journey alongside the brides as they travel into a ...
Best known as a horticultural historian, she wrote a celebrated biography of two early 17th-century gardeners and collectors Strange Blooms: the curious lives and adventures of the John Tradescants, which was longlisted for the Duff Cooper prize in 2007.
