UID:
almafu_9959237625202883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-48814-9
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1-138-86792-6
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1-134-48815-7
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1-280-40175-3
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0-203-28154-3
Series Statement:
Women in science (Routledge (Firm)) Adele Marion Fielde
Content:
Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China, she became a local teacher and evangelist, struggling to reconcile her Baptist upbringing with her restless intellect. As an energetic social activist, she was a major figure in the suffragist movement, the abolition of the slave trade and the founding of two hospitals. As a scientist she conducted seminal research which is still discussed and studied today.This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations and abbreviations; Preface; Chronology; Beginnings; Out of the nest; Bangkok; Passage through America; Swatow, China; Philadelphia, 1883 1885; Last years in the Far East; The voyage home; New York; Religion, science, and the occult; Ants; Seattle; A model death; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-27121-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-16640-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203166406
