Female Soldier

Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was an Englishwoman known for the acts described in The Female Soldier, or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell: her husband, James Summes, a Dutch seaman, abandoned her while she was pregnant with their child; the child died a year later, and she disguised herself as her brother-in-law and became a soldier so that she could track down her husband.

'The most famous of all female warriors.' (Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self)

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