The female sailor : A faithful history of the romantic and perilons [sic] adventures of that interesting young female Anne Jane Thornton, who left her father's house, and, in the dress of a sailor, entered as a cabin boy on board of an American vessel, in search of her sweetheart. With an account of her arrival at New York, where she learnt her sweetheart was dead, - of her travelling seventy miles on foot alone, through the woods of America - of her entering as cook and steward on board the Sarah, and after a number of perilous adventures, of her safe arrival in the port of London, - as related by herself before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, London, Tuesday, February 10 1835.
Thornton, Anne Jane.
[London] : Printed and published by J Pitts 6, Great St Andrew Street,
[1835]
Dated from internal evidence.
First line of prose reads: The narrative of the romantic adventures of the above interesting young/ creature.
First line of verse reads: Good people give attention & listen to my song.
In prose and verse.
Prose in two columns, verse in three columns with a woodcut beneath the title.
Ballads, English
Women sailors