Sue Anderson

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King Lear · Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074 - Various · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

In peace and safety.

But how vain and transient are the hopes of mortal man.

All his joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, anxious cares and premature plans were shortly to terminate with himself.

And I was to be left at four years of age, destitute of a father.

They had scarcely lost sight of land when his disease returned with increased violence and

And twelve days after the vessel left New York, I

He expired.

The reader will not consider my situation as deplorable, while he thinks that still I had a mother to take care of me.

and to assist me in my childish years.

True, I had a mother and

and a mother who survived my father.

But it was only for twenty minutes that

For she, being in the last stage of pregnancy, the alarm occasioned by his death brought on premature labor and terminated her existence.

Thus on a sudden I lost both father and mother, saw them sewed up in the same hammock and committed to a watery grave.

Here my misfortunes did not end, but

I was seized by the smallpox, and for want of a mother's care and proper medical aid, this most loathsome disease deprived me of my sight.

After a long and dangerous voyage, the

It being a hurricane almost all the time.

The captain was obliged to put into Belfast Harbour.

As the ship had suffered much in her masts, rigging, etc.

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