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Elizabeth Marsh (1735–1785) was an Englishwoman who was held captive in Morocco for a brief period after the ship she was traveling from Gibraltar to England to unite with her fiancé was intercepted by a Moroccan corsair and overtaken by its crew. [4]
Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981) [1] is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended. [2] Her captor, Thomas Hose, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison. [3]
Fanny Kelly (c. 1845–1904 [1]) was a North American pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later. She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871.
The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an anthology of essays about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Edited by Catherine Golden, it was published in 1992 by The Feminist Press . [ 1 ]
The story of Mary Jemison, who was captured as a young girl (1755) and spent the remainder of her 90 years among the Seneca, is such an example. [27] Where The Spirit Lives, a 1989 film written by Keith Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman, turns the tables on the familiar white captive/aboriginal captors narrative. It sensitively portrays the ...
The case is documented in the book Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box (1989), by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, [43] and referenced in Kathy Reichs's novel Monday Mourning (2004). [44] An updated version of Stan's story, Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life by Jim Green, was published in 2009. [45]
Calico Captive is Elizabeth George Speare's first historical fiction children's novel, published in 1957. It was inspired by the true story of Susanna Willard Johnson (1730–1810) who, along with her family and younger sister, were kidnapped in an Abenaki Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire in August 1754.
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941) is a fictional version of Jemison's story for all readers, written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. In this novel, Jemison is given the name: "Little Woman of Great Courage." by her willingness to give up the life of a white woman to become an Indian woman at the end of the book.