FEMALE MISSIONARIES.

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The Female Missionary Intelligencer. First collected edition, covering the 1864 endeavours of Britain's first female-run missionary society and its first organization specifically for the training of women missionaries. The monthly issues include reports of work in the society's target areas of Hong Kong, India, and Egypt.The Society for Promoting Female Education in the East was founded in 1834 and focused initially on India. From the 1840s, it expanded its efforts to include China and, later, the Middle East. The Female Missionary Intelligencer, published monthly from 1854, carried pieces submitted by the society's operatives, book reviews, and engravings from drawings made in the field.

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