Article Title

Love, Travel, and Rumor: New Findings on the Life of the Reverend N.W.T. Root, a Principal Actor in Portland's Nineteenth-Century Drama, “The Perils of Lemira Pennell"

Authors

Elizabeth Sheehan

Publication Date

10-1-2005

Document Type

From the Collections

First Page

187

Last Page

190

Abstract

Elizabeth Sheehan is an Anthropologist trained at the University of Connecticut. She works as an academic and Special Education tutor for several southern Maine school districts. With the support of friends and colleagues at the Maine Historical Society and the History Department at University of Southern Maine, she has furthered her intellectual interests through demographic and ethnohistorical projects at the Maine Historical Society notably a study of Famine-era refugees in Portland's Western Cemetery, Lemira Pennell and womens agency in nineteenth-century Maine (presented at the Maine Humanities Council Meeting) and topics involving nineteenth-century Quakers in Maine .

Recommended Citation

Sheehan, Elizabeth. "Love, Travel, and Rumor: New Findings on the Life of the Reverend N.W.T. Root, a Principal Actor in Portland's Nineteenth-Century Drama, “The Perils of Lemira Pennell"." Maine History 42, 3 (2005): 187-190. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol42/iss3/6