Marblehead's Pygmalion

Finding the Real Agnes Surriage

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: F. Marshall Bauer ISBN: 9781614230748
Publisher: The History Press Publication: September 15, 2011
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: F. Marshall Bauer
ISBN: 9781614230748
Publisher: The History Press
Publication: September 15, 2011
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English
Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent “codfish widows,” wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes’s version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as her own Henry Higgins while making the often painful transformation from “girl of all works” at the Fountain Inn to the charming and dignified Lady Agnes, wife of Sir Charles Henry Frankland. After deconstructing the legend for twenty-five years, author F. Marshall Bauer has unearthed a story of money, lust and vindication.
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Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent “codfish widows,” wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes’s version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as her own Henry Higgins while making the often painful transformation from “girl of all works” at the Fountain Inn to the charming and dignified Lady Agnes, wife of Sir Charles Henry Frankland. After deconstructing the legend for twenty-five years, author F. Marshall Bauer has unearthed a story of money, lust and vindication.

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