Nantucket Girl's Song Luggage Tag

The Nantucket Girl's Song is a witty poem written by a Nantucket woman during the whaling era in the 19th century. At that time Nantucket Island was a unique place to be a woman as men were off whaling. Women on dry land outnumbered men by significant numbers. They ran businesses, dictated social normalcy and did things that their female counterparts on the mainland couldn't dream of doing. This light hearted poem sums up how many women felt about their husbands being off on whaling voyages for years at a time.

The poem was found in a journal kept by Eliza Brock, wife of Peter C. Brock, master of the Nantucket ship Lexington on a whaling voyage from May 1853 to June 1856. Historians believe the poem was written by another Nantucket woman named Mary Ford. Mary moved to Bay of Isles, New Zealand with her husband. Bay of Isles was a frequent and infamous port of call for Nantucket whale ships.

Tag measures 3 1/2" x 3"