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Mrs. Moses Smith
1835–1929
A late-19th-century writer and missionary speaker, remembered for examining how religion and social custom shaped women's lives around the world. Her work brings together reform-minded Christianity, women's advocacy, and a strong interest in global cultures.
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Woman under the ethnic religions
by Mrs. Moses Smith
About the author
Writing as Mrs. Moses Smith, she is known for Woman under the Ethnic Religions, based on a paper read at the World's Congress of Missions in Chicago on October 4, 1893. The work looks at the condition of women in several non-Christian religious traditions and reflects the missionary and reform movements of its time.
She also wrote Woman's Work for Woman: Its Place and Power, published in 1900 by the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior. Contemporary book records connect her closely with that organization, and reports from the late 1870s identify Mrs. Moses Smith of Jackson, Michigan as its president.
Reliable biographical details beyond her publications and missionary leadership are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Even so, her surviving works offer a clear picture of a writer engaged with women's education, missionary activism, and the religious debates of her era.