A saint in Kenya : a life of Marion Scott Stevenson / by Mrs. Henry E. Scott
1932, 1st edition. London : Hodder & Stoughton. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Internal foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #403158
Physical description; 320 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Home and family -- Early education -- The Ministers' Daughters' College ; Germany -- Invalid years -- Home and church activities -- Renewed consecration : the call to Africa -- Founding of the Kikuyu mission -- Miss Stevenson arrives in Africa -- The Kikuyu people -- First steps -- The end of a phase -- Reinforcements and new buildings -- Village visitation -- Winning the girls -- School and boarding-house -- Village work in 1908 -- Diversities and diversions of missionary life -- Progress and development in 1909 and 1910 -- Furlough and return -- On the road to Tumutumu -- Raw material -- The girls' hard fight -- "In journeyings oft" -- The Kikuyu Conference, 1913 -- Jack of all trades -- The war period -- The aftermath of war : Kikuyu Conference 1918 -- The rising tide (1919-1921) -- "Our mother" -- Flood tide (1922-1925) -- Education in theory and practice -- Translation work : the last furlough -- Chogoria, 1927-- A dweller in tents -- The last circuit, 1929 -- Illness and death. Subjects; Stevenson, Marion Scott 1871-1930. Stevenson, Marion Scott. Stevenson, Marion Scott 1871-1930 ; Biography. Church of Scotland Missions. Church of Scotland. Kikuyu (African people) Missions. Missions Kenya. Kikuyu (African people) Missions. Women missionaries ; Biography. Kenya. Kenya Christian missions Stevenson, Marion Scott biographies.
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