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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.
My latest book is called The Jamestown Brides, The Untold Story of England’s ‘maids for Virginia’. Published by Atlantic Books in the UK (October 2018), it follows in the footsteps of fifty-six young English women shipped to Virginia nearly four hundred years ago and traded for tobacco as wives to the planters.
Jennifer Potter. Oxford University Press, 2019 - History - 384 pages. Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger -- from starvation and disease to violent...
4 de dic. de 2019 · “The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England’s ‘Maids for Virginia,’” by Jennifer Potter, tells the story of 56 women who left England to become brides for settlers in colonial Jamestown. | Oxford University Press
