Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Class Book

by Mary Forman Ledyard, Abertine D. Mandall

EN·~1 hours·1 chapter

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1 total

1:35:50

Description

A collection of fiction, supposedly written by members of an Anglo-American woman's college in China.

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~1 hours (92K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-08-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6345

Subjects

Chinese in literature PS

About the authors

Mary Forman Ledyard

b. 1867

Known for the unusual and memorable Seven Maids of Far Cathay, this early-20th-century writer helped shape a book that presents English lessons through the voices of Chinese students. Her work blends classroom experiment, storytelling, and cross-cultural curiosity in a way that still feels distinctive.

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Abertine D. Mandall

A little-known early 20th-century writer, best remembered for a single unusual collaboration that turns classroom exercises into a literary curiosity. Her surviving record is sparse, which gives the book an air of mystery as well as historical charm.

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