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Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew
1845–1917
A reform-minded writer and missionary, she used her books to expose the abuse of women under systems of state-regulated prostitution in British India and colonial Hong Kong. Her work joined moral outrage with first-hand investigation, making it a striking part of late 19th- and early 20th-century social reform writing.
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Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew, Katharine C. (Katharine Caroline) Bushnell
About the author
Born in 1845 and dying in 1917, Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew was an American author associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She is remembered for writing on social purity and for taking part in international reform work rather than limiting herself to local activism.
With Katharine C. Bushnell, she was appointed to work in India in 1890 through the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Their collaboration led to books including The Queen's Daughters in India and, later, Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers, works that argued against the official regulation of prostitution and described the exploitation of women under imperial rule.
Her writing is direct, urgent, and strongly shaped by reform activism. Today, she stands out as a voice from a transnational movement of women who used investigation, travel, and print to challenge systems they believed were unjust.