"How Frought with Sorrow and Heartpangs": Mariners' Wives and the Ideology of Domesticity in New England, 1790-1880

The ways in which New England women adapted to the demands of the whaling industry in the absence of their husbands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries are discussed. Such women were increasingly caught between the conflicting developments in the deep-sea industries and in ideas about women�...

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