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Mary Rowlandson

American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War
Person human Q271905

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
female[9]
Date of birth
1635
Date of death
January 5, 1711
Place of birth
Somerset
Place of death
Wethersfield
Country of citizenship
Kingdom of Great Britain[7]
Occupation
writer, autobiographer
Notable work
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson[8]
Genre
captivity narrative[10]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[26]
Birth name
Mary White[27]
Described by source
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers (1st edition), The Encyclopedia Americana, New International Encyclopedia, American women writers to 1800[20][21][22][23][24][25]
Family name
Rowlandson[16]
Given name
Mary[17]
Residence
Somersetshire, Salem, Lancaster, Wethersfield, Boston[11][12][13][14][15]
Significant event
marriage, kidnapping, marriage[18][19]
Writing language
English[28]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mary Rowlandson en Mary Talcott en Mary White en Mary White Rowlandson ar ماري وايت fr Mary White fr Mary Talcott hu Mary White Rowlandson it Mary White Rowlandson ru Мэри Роулендсон ru Роулендсон, Мэри zh 玛丽·罗兰森
🔖 Identifiers · 45
ISNI
0000000108916900
VIAF cluster ID
41955546
Library of Congress authority ID
n50022304
GND ID
119047411
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
1770 MaryRowlandson Captivity.png ↗
American National Biography ID
1601418
BIBSYS ID
5044904
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
125552301
CANTIC ID
981058514104206706
CERL Thesaurus ID
cnp01352134
Collective Biographies of Women ID
19050
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Mary-Rowlandson
Show all 45 identifiers +33
FAST ID
1844865
FactGrid item ID
Deutscher Bauherrenpreis
Freebase ID
/m/02b0c7
Harper's tag
mary-white-rowlandson
IdRef ID
034842365
LibriVox author ID
158
Libris-URI
pm1485372xk9s56
NL CR AUT ID
kup19960000084610
NUKAT ID
n02726014
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007580641805171
National Library of Korea ID
KAC2018O1340
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9811810840605606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX1099646
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
314511377
Notable Names Database ID
438/000115093
Obálky knih ID
kup19960000084610
Online Books Page author ID
Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711
Open Library ID
OL414109A
OpenMLOL author ID
22894, 176260
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID
24220
Pontifical University of Salamanca ID
1402253
Project Gutenberg author ID
445
RERO ID (legacy)
A003767123
SELIBR ID
322987
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
10010508
The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
3869
The Women's Print History Project person ID
2148
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058514104206706
University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
a1268492
WeRelate person ID
Mary_White_(317)
WikiTree person ID
White-155
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJjdh64R7RJYYPxCdRbKh3
Yale LUX ID
person/225a68a9-1afd-40d6-8e8e-ce540fa5bd31

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🔗 Connections
Residence 4
Boston, Salem, Wethersfield, Lancaster
Significant event 3
marriage, marriage, kidnapping
Described by source 2
New International Encyclopedia, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Occupation 2
writer, autobiographer
Country of citizenship 1
Kingdom of Great Britain
Genre 1
captivity narrative
Given name 1
Mary
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Place of birth 1
Somerset
Place of death 1
Wethersfield
Sex or gender 1
female
Writing language 1
English
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Summary

Mary Rowlandson was born in 1635[1] in Somerset[2]. She died on January 5, 1711[3], in Wethersfield[4]. She worked as a writer[5] and autobiographer[6].

FAQs

Where was Mary Rowlandson born?

Mary Rowlandson's place of birth was Somerset[2].

Where did Mary Rowlandson die?

Mary Rowlandson passed away in Wethersfield[4].

What did Mary Rowlandson do for work?

Mary Rowlandson worked as a writer[5] and autobiographer[6].

Related Entities

Kingdom of Great Britain

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  13. [1] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [3] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica. wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  26. [26] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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