Francesca French

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

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...

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 .

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

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.