Maria Mitchell, Life, Letters, and Journals, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Maria Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451018460 ISBN 13: 9781451018462

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Nantucket, Mass., A ug. I, 1818. She was the third child of William and Lydia C oleman Mitchell. Her ancestors, on both sides, were Quakers for many generations; and it was in consequence of the intolerance of the early Puritans that these ancestors had been obliged to flee from the State of Massachusetts, and to settle upon this island, which, at that time, belonged to the State of New York. For many years the Quakers, or Friends, as they called themselves, formed much the larger part of the inhabitants of Nantucket, and thus were enabled to crystallize, as it were, their own ideas of what family and social life should be; and although in course of time many worlds people swooped down and helped to swell the number of islanders, they still continued to hold their own methods, and to bring up their children in accordance with their own conceptions of Divine
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1451018460
• ISBN 13: 9781451018462
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309