Pitman, Emma Raymond

Heroines of the Mission Field. Biographical Sketches of Female Missionaries Who Have Laboured in Various Lands among the Heathen

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880

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Contents


Women’s Work in the Mission Field 1
Story of the Zenana Mission 21
Mrs. Mary Moffat, of the Kuruman, South Africa 42
Mrs. Maria Regina Christina Gobat, of Jerusalem 67
Mrs. Hannah Catherine Mullens, of Calcutta 81
Mrs. Emily C. Judson, of Burmah 96
Mrs. Mary Williams, of the South Seas 121
Miss Fidelia Fiske, of Persia 140
Mrs. Mary M. Ellis, of the South Seas 160
Mrs. Dorothy Jones, of the West Indies 175
Mrs. Jane Chalmers, of Rarotonga and New Guinea 186
Mrs. Anna Hinderer, of Ibadan, West Africa 198
Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Madras 215
Mrs. Rebecca Wakefield, of Ribé, East Africa 221
Miss Susan B. Higgins, of Yokohama, Japan 241
Mrs. Hannah Kilham, of Sierra Leone 252
Mrs. Mary Hope, of Kunnunkulum, India 267