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

by Mary Forman Ledyard, Abertine D. Mandall

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Description

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

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

Aug 1, 2004

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 a lively, unusual book shaped by classroom life in China, this early-20th-century educator turned cross-cultural experience into something witty, curious, and memorable.

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Abertine D. Mandall

Best known as the co-author of the 1916 book Seven Maids of Far Cathay, this little-documented writer is remembered through a single unusual work shaped by cross-cultural storytelling and English-language teaching in early 20th-century China.

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