Educating the women of Hainan

Description:

For Margaret Moninger - a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa - a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island, China's southernmost territory, where she remained until repatriated in 1942. Kathleen Lodwick's biography, the first devoted to a single woman missionary, is based primarily on the long, newsy letters Moninger wrote her family every Sunday of her missionary years, and on those of a fellow missionary. It will be of interest to scholars in Asian Studies, religious studies, and anthropology.

subjects: Biography,  Education,  History,  Presbyterian Church,  Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.,  Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hainan Mission,  Women,  Women missionaries,  Presbyterian church (u.s.a.)., history,  Presbyterian church, missions,  Women, education

People: Mary Margaret Moninger (1891-1950)

Places: China,  United States

Times: 20th century