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Marriage in China

Little Archibald Mrs. d. 1926

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Description:Rich and beautiful, Lilian Grey is alone in the world but for a distant cousin who works as a missionary. It is the 1890s, and beautiful heiresses are expected to marry well and stay at home, but Lilian, determined to chart her own course, asks to accompany her cousin to her remote mission station in western China.It is not long before Lilian does indeed marry, but not before she has shown on several occasions a strength of character that no-one believes she possesses – a trait that she is obliged to draw on once again when the scandalmongers of Shanghai’s expatriate community cause her husband’s secret finally to be revealed.Set against the uneasy atmosphere of pre-Boxer rebellion China, the author of Mother Darling (1885), a polemical novel on the rights of married women, uses her intimate knowledge of expatriate life in China to examine attitudes towards race, culture, and women’s work.A Marriage in China was first published in 1896 by F V White & Co, London. From http://www.readaroundasia.co.uk/micin...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage in China. To get started finding Marriage in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Rich and beautiful, Lilian Grey is alone in the world but for a distant cousin who works as a missionary. It is the 1890s, and beautiful heiresses are expected to marry well and stay at home, but Lilian, determined to chart her own course, asks to accompany her cousin to her remote mission station in western China.It is not long before Lilian does indeed marry, but not before she has shown on several occasions a strength of character that no-one believes she possesses – a trait that she is obliged to draw on once again when the scandalmongers of Shanghai’s expatriate community cause her husband’s secret finally to be revealed.Set against the uneasy atmosphere of pre-Boxer rebellion China, the author of Mother Darling (1885), a polemical novel on the rights of married women, uses her intimate knowledge of expatriate life in China to examine attitudes towards race, culture, and women’s work.A Marriage in China was first published in 1896 by F V White & Co, London. From http://www.readaroundasia.co.uk/micin...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage in China. To get started finding Marriage in China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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