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who posted the mission announcement. Lucy and Asa were complete strangers prior to their wedding. Several days later, she accompanied her husband on a five-month voyage on board the ship
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After her husband's death on March 11, 1868, Lucy started writing a memoir. She compiled her letters and other writings (completed by her daughter
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The autobiography was divided into several parts. The first was devoted to the mission's early work in Hawaii. Later parts covered her journey to
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In 1819, she applied to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers to missionize in Hawaii through the invitation of
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Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
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The couple helped build churches and schools after securing permission for their ministry at
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Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies
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Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale
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to remove her left breast in the same year. The procedure was conducted by
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in 1876). It is one of the most vivid accounts of the early mission days.
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Lucy Goodale was born to a prosperous family on October 29, 1795, on the
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Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
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Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900: 1881-1900, Volume 4
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Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura; Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette (2008).
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And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai'i
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Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia
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Index

Lucy Thurston

Bradley
Rulofson
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Honolulu, Hawaii
Asa Thurston
Persis Goodale

Protestant
missionary
Asa Thurston
American
Christian
Hawaii
Goodale Homestead
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Hudson, Massachusetts
American Revolutionary War
Bradford Academy
King Kamehameha II
Fitchburg
Yale University
Kawaihae, Hawaii
Kailua-Kona
Queen Ka'ahumanu
breast cancer
mastectomy
Seth Porter Ford
anaesthetic

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