Mildred Cable

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Standard Name: Cable, Mildred
Birth Name: Alice Mildred Cable
Used Form: A. 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, and all are influenced by her missionary work. She is sole author of only one book; Francesca French is co-author of her others. Although she wrote biographies, children's books, and missionary guides, MC is best known for her much-praised travel narratives, including an autobiography written in the third person.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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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Texts

Cable, Mildred et al. A Desert Journal. Constable, 1934.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. A Woman Who Laughed. China Inland Mission, 1934.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. China: Her Life and Her People. London University Press, 1946.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Grace, Child of the Gobi. Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.
Warner, Marina et al. “Introduction”. The Gobi Desert, Beacon Press, 1987, p. xi - xxi.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Journey with a Purpose. Hodder and Stoughton, 1950.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press, 1946.
Cable, Mildred. The Fulfilment of a Dream. Morgan and Scott, 1917.
Cable, Mildred et al. The Gobi Desert. Beacon Press, 1987.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Story of Topsy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable, 1927.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Why not for the World?. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1952.