Author: PATON, Maggie Whitecross.
Title: Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. Edited by her brother-in-law Jas. Paton. second edition.
Description: 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.
Keywords: Islands New Hebrides Pacific mission
Title: Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. Edited by her brother-in-law Jas. Paton. second edition.
Description: 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.
Keywords: Islands New Hebrides Pacific mission
Price: EUR 82.50 = appr. US$ 89.66 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36770
- Book number: 36770