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Isobel Gunn (1999)

Isobel Gunn (1999)

Literary Fiction

Audrey Callahan Thomas

Year: 1999
Authors: Audrey Callahan Thomas
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.