#from warning her lady friend about her CO’s intentions and getting flogged 600 TIMES - they only made it to 500 before intervention
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Hannah Snell, my hero
#I don’t wanna just Go Off on main about her#but oh my god she’s so fascinating!#I am a little miffed that the only written work about her wasn’t written BY her#so there may be a little publication bias and of course things she wouldn’t have told them about#just the everything#from warning her lady friend about her CO’s intentions and getting flogged 600 TIMES - they only made it to 500 before intervention#and said lady friend helping her desert the army so she goes and joins the navy as a marine#and at one point the sailors are committed to calling her a woman she just goes off and says ‘I will give you VISUAL PROOF I ain’t a woman’#the BALLS this woman had#and then she just becomes one of the guys#and she gets ENGAGED to a young woman while in England#saying she’ll marry her once she returns from Lisbon. obv she DIDNT but I can’t find a SOLID good reason why she did that?#it’s not like it was a very public thing - so why Hannah WHY#and when she hears her abusive husband was executed for murder she’s just ‘All is right with the world FUCK that guy’#but she continues living as a man for WAY long after that?! she didn’t join the army for her husband either so!#she’s just fascinating#I’m currently reaching out to a bunch of museums archives in Wapping to see if I can get any other information not in her account#(because I may or may not be writing a book about her)#((or a stage play because I love script writing))#age of sail#hannah snell#I’m reading a bunch of other accounts of women at sea and in the army and JESUS Christ!#idek how they got away with it so long absolutely in love with them#I also think it’s really easy to deify historical figures (coughNelsoncough) so that’s why I’m really trying to get access to journals and#diaries by her crew mates her family - anyone who knew her and just gather all these viewpoints#coz like I said! she didn’t write her story herself. she TOLD it to a publisher who swears he changed nothing#but let’s be real. also I’m just kinda cynical about non-primary sources
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