Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries

by Amanda Porterfield

Book Overview

American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This work allowed them to disseminate the Prostestant religious principles in which they believed, and by enabling them to acquire professional competence as teachers, to break into public life and create new opportunities for themselves and other women. No institution was more closely associated with women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195113012
• ISBN13: 9780195113013
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"