Mary Chipman Lawrence wasn’t the first wife who ever accompanied her husband on a whaling voyage, nor was she the last, but I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly.
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The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
“I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly.”
Bradford Swan, Providence Journal
Mary Chipman Lawrence wasn’t the first wife who ever accompanied her husband on a whaling voyage, nor was she the last, but I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly.
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