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Ladies work for sailors
Women have contributed in many significant ways to the work of missions to seafarers. Marine industries were and are isolating and dangerous, and the risks were endured by families at home as well as those at sea. Women and children were associated with marine missions initially as subjects of charity, but by the 20th century they were playing a more assertive role.

Agnes Elizabeth Weston, 1840-1918
Biography of Dame Agnes Weston