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Phebe Folger Coleman

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husband often lament their separation: " am willing to contribute my mite to accelerate that happy period when we shall not be obliged to separate" (1800) and, "I am very lonesome... thy absence grows more insupportable than it used to be... Why should so much of our time be spent apart?" (1808). After his death in 1828, she operated a local grist mill.
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She married Samuel Coleman, a sailor and Quaker, in 1798. She taught him the mathematics and navigation she learned from her brother and, with his new knowledge, he became the captain of a ship. While he was away at sea, she supplemented the family income by keeping a school. Her letters to her
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and which included "Painting, Penmanship, Algebra" as well as prose and poetry, including literature she translated from French.
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A collector named Philip Hofer purchased Coleman's commonplace book in the 20th century and donated it to the
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was the second woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. In 1797, Phebe Folger began a
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Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics
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Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
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Folger on November 10, 1771. She was the great-great-great granddaughter of
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Phebe Folger was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Walter and Elizabeth
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I feel as if a part of myself were gone...": Whalers' Letters
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First page of the commonplace book of Phebe Folger Coleman,
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Houghton Library
Nantucket
Massachusetts
Peter Foulger
Mary Morrill Folger
Benjamin Franklin
Starbuck whaling family
Walter Folger, Jr.
Lydia Folger Fowler
commonplace book
Houghton Library
Harvard University
ISBN
978-0-8070-2142-2
ISBN
978-0-8070-2142-2
ISBN
0-8078-2561-1
ISBN
9780802852649
ISBN
0-8078-2561-1
ISBN
0-8078-2561-1
ISBN
0-8078-2561-1
I feel as if a part of myself were gone...": Whalers' Letters
Categories
1771 births

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