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Book SynopsisA finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly).
Trade Review"[Hodes] has done an extraordinary job of writing the story of an ordinary New England woman who was a prolific letter writer and who made unusual decisions for her time." -- Washington Post
"Few researchers have the imagination or tenacity to reconstruct a lost life as carefully as Hodes has done…an absorbing account of a life reclaimed from obscurity." -- Times Literary Supplement
"Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly’s life is a road map to learning about 19th-century America…Those who love books about history will revel in the book's detail." -- Cape Cod Times
