MITHUN, MARIANNE; FITZGERALD, CAROLINE

Letters from the Bay of Islands

UK, Sutton Pub Ltd. 2004. (ISBN: 0750936967) Original Cloth. Book, Marianne Williams, an early exemplar, did much more than support her husband, Henry Williams, and mother 11 children. As the editor of her letters notes, on any given day she could find herself in the role of "cook, seamstress, hostess, nurse, pharmacist, midwife, schoolteacher, counsellor, domestic science teacher, missionary, community leader, correspondent and historian". Amid the isolation and subsistence conditions of the mission station at Paihia in the 1820s and 1830s she constantly wrote letters, despite a chronic shortage of paper and delays unimaginable today. /As New.

-- Graham Toms, Fine and Rare Books

Book number: 016936

Keywords: 0750936967 Women Missionaries Maori (New Zealand