PATON, Maggie Whitecross. - Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. Edited by her brother-in-law Jas. Paton. second edition.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. With coloured map and 23 photographic plates and illustrations. XI,382,(2) pp. First published in London the same year. - Margaret Paton was the second wife of pioneer missionary John G. Paton, she went to the Pacific in 1865. They settled on the island of Aniwa. She was a woman of great piety and strong character. She showed literary ability in her 'Letters and sketches' (DNB). Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high-spirited and despairing - the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all (Robinson, Wayward women, p.168/169). Theakstone p.209.

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