Adele Marion Fielde : feminist, social activist, scientist / / by Leonard Warren

• Autore: Warren Leonard <1924, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Feminists - United States; Suffragists - United States; Women missionaries - China; Women scientists - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Adele Marion Fielde
• ISBN: 1-134-48814-9; 1-138-86792-6; 1-134-48815-7; 1-280-40175-3; 0-203-28154-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780116003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women in science (Routledge (Firm))