Rebecca Mascull, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/rebeccamascull/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:45:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Females on ships in the age of sail – from women dressed as men to lone travellers https://booksbywomen.org/females-on-ships-in-the-age-of-sail-from-women-dressed-as-men-to-lone-travellers/ https://booksbywomen.org/females-on-ships-in-the-age-of-sail-from-women-dressed-as-men-to-lone-travellers/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:33:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14981 My second novel, SONG OF THE SEA MAID, is set in the mid-C18th and my main character Dawnay Price needs to travel in order to do what she wants to do. She is a scientist – or as they’d say in those days, a natural philosopher – and she wants to study the flora and […]

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