Women / Persons ~ P11915

Hannah Snell

Alternate Names:

Mrs. Eyles
James Gray
Mrs. Hapgood
Hannah Summes

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 3 April 1723 – 8 February 1792

Types:

Cross dresser, male impersonator
English
Military

Note: Enlisted dressed in brother's clothes to search for father of her daughter (Summes); after daughter's death, military career which included service as marine in campaigns in India. Celebrity in London after return and revealing her story. Later life as wife (different husbands) and mother.

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Biographies (5 Total)

Hannah Snell Author: C. J. Worthington . Collection Title: Women Adventurers. 1890?
Hannah Snell Author: Cicely Mary Hamilton . Collection Title: A Pageant of Great Women. 1910
Hannah Snell 1723-92, Heroic Marine of Pondicherry Author: John Laffin . Collection Title: Women in Battle. 1967
Hannah Snell, Private in the Line and Marines Author: Ellen Creathorne Clayton . Collection Title: Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. 1879
I. The Amazons in ancient and modern times - Miss Beebe Beam - Senora Loreta Velasquez - Women who have served in the British Army, disguising their sex - Christian Davies - Hannah Snell - Mary Anne Talbot - Dr. James Barry, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals Author: Francis Henry Gribble . Collection Title: Women in War. 1916