She went a-whaling : the journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown from Orient, Long Island, New York, around the world on the whaling ship Lucy Ann, 1847-1849

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Title:

She went a-whaling : the journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown from Orient, Long Island, New York, around the world on the whaling ship Lucy Ann, 1847-1849 / transcribed and edited by Anne MacKay, with a foreword by Joan Druett, and introduction by Donald H. Boerum, for the Oysterponds Historical Society.

Author/Creator:

Brown, Martha Smith Brewer, 1821-1911.

Publication Information:

Orient, N.Y. : Oysterponds Historical Society, c1993.

Physical description:

103 p. : ill., facsims. geneal. tables, maps, port. ; 23 cm.

Notes:

"Genealogy" (p. 100-102).

ISBN:

0963191128

Subjects:

Women and the sea.

Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century.

Brown, Martha Smith Brewer, 1821-1911.

Brown family.

Brewster family.

Lucy Ann (Whaleship)

Other Authors/Creators:

MacKay, Anne.

Druett, Joan 1939-

Boerum, Donald H.

Record ID:

SD_ILS:27499

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Summary

One of the women who accompanied her whaling-captain husband for an adventure on the whaling grounds, Martha Smith Brewer Brown kept a journal in 1847 and 1848, and it is presented here edited by Anne MacKay in a little book that makes a large contribution to women's history and whaling history. The very religious Martha Brown writes about her fears, her moral concerns, shipboard life, whale-hunting, and especially her distress during eight months ashore in Honolulu with a baby on the way, a husband in the Sea of Okhotsk, and not enough money in her purse.