Francesca French

While MC and Evangeline (Eva) French were home on furlough, Cable met Evangeline's younger sister Francesca . The three women became a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.

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

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.

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.

MC and Evangeline and Francesca French rented a flat in Hampstead, to help their missionary work for organisations including the British and Foreign Bible Society , the China Inland Mission , and the Salvation Army .

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...

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.

MC and Evangeline and Francesca French were ordered to leave China permanently, along with all other foreigners, because of the Sino-Japanese war.

A Woman Who Laughed was published: a biography by MC and Francesca French of their influential friend Henrietta Soltau of the China Inland Mission .

The Making of a Pioneer, a biography by MC and Francesca French of fellow missionary Percy Mather , was based on twenty years of his letters to his family.

Two books by MC and Francesca French were published this year: China: Her Life and Her People and The Book which Demands a Verdict.

Why not for the World?: The Story of the Work of God through the Bible Society, MC 's last publication, appeared through the British and Foreign Bible Society . It was again co-written with Francesca French .

The Story of Topsy, Little Lonely of Central Asia, a children's book by MC and Francesca French , was published.

This book arose from MC 's experiences at the first mission she visited in China. While she retains sole authorship, MC acknowledges the important role of the Frenchsisters in the book's production, saying...

Most comment on The Gobi Desert disregards the question of its authorship in favour of discussing the three women's extraordinary lives together.