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Mrs. Moses Smith
1835–1929
Known today for a late-19th-century work on women and religion, this author wrote in the reform-minded world of Protestant missions and public religious debate. Her surviving work offers a revealing glimpse into how some American writers of the era understood gender, faith, and social change.
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Woman under the ethnic religions
by Mrs. Moses Smith
About the author
Very little biographical information about this writer could be confirmed from reliable online sources during this search. She is generally listed simply as Mrs. Moses Smith (1835–1929), and Project Gutenberg attributes to her the book Woman under the Ethnic Religions.
That work was presented as a paper at the World's Congress of Missions in Chicago on October 4, 1893, and later circulated in print. In it, she examined the condition of women under several non-Christian religious traditions, reflecting the missionary concerns and reform language common in the United States in the late 1800s.
Because so few verified personal details were available, the best way to understand her today is through that surviving work: not just as a religious text, but as a historical document showing how women, religion, and global cultures were discussed in her time.