Their Canoe Trip

by Mary P. Wells Smith

Excerpt from Their Canoe Trip

Perhaps, Aunt Asenath, there's a divinity that Shapes boys' ends, rough-hew them how they will, with a view to the perpetuation of the race, suggested Marion.

276 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

Well-respected in her own time but now often overlooked, Mary Prudence Wells Smith was a children's author, feminist, and local historian. Her two most famous series, Jolly Good Times and Young Puritans, drew on her family's background and on regional history; her life and other writings demonstrated her engagement with women's rights and women's history.