Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable.
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Occupation | Mildred Cable | MC
and Evangeline
and Francesca French
began their nomadic travels as itinerant missionaries, teaching Christianity throughout the provinces of Shensi, Kansu, Mongolia and Sinkiang, the Great Northwest of China. Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable. 1-2 |
Author summary | Mildred Cable | China provided a centre not only for MC
's life but also for her writing. Of her nineteen works, published in the first half of the twentieth century, most describe her experiences as a traveller... |
Occupation | Mildred Cable | MC
and Evangeline
and Francesca French
made another journey, of over 6,000 miles, from Suchow to London via the Gobi Desert, Russia, and the rest of Europe for one of their leaves in England. Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable. 169, 301 |
Textual Production | Mildred Cable | |
Residence | Mildred Cable | During a period of civil unrest in China, MC
and Evangeline
and Francesca French
returned home on leave to London via Siberia, Moscow, and Berlin. Platt, William James. Three Women. Hodder & Stoughton. 174-6 |
Textual Production | Mildred Cable | Most comment on The Gobi Desert disregards the question of its authorship in favour of discussing the three women's extraordinary lives together. The confusion between the three is so great that the entry for MC |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
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