The Ship-Carpenter's Family: A Story For The Times is a novel written by William Edward Seaver Whitman in 1855. The book tells the story of the Ship-Carpenter family, who are struggling to make ends meet in the midst of economic and social change in mid-19th century America. The father, John Ship-Carpenter, is a skilled carpenter who has been displaced by the rise of factory production. His wife, Mary, is a hard-working homemaker who tries to keep...