Mary Cover Lawry
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Mary Cover Lawry
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Mary Cover Lawry was a missionary, as were her father Rowland Hassall and husband Walter Lawry. She was born in Parramatta during its early days. While in Tonga, she was able to quickly develop relationships with Tongan woman through shared interests in their children, husbands, and homes. Margaret Reeson wrote the biographical fiction book Currency Lass (1985) about Lawry's life. She said about the book, "For a long time I wanted to write a storey that expressed what it was like to be a mission
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Missionary daughter and wife, Pioneer missionary to Tonga (1799–1825)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Lawry
date created:
2022-10-08T21:05:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T06:29:09Z
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