Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942

by Kathleen L. Lodwick

Book Overview

For Margaret Moninger-a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa-a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island, China's southernmost territory, where she remained until repatriated in 1942. During her years in Hainan, Moninger played many roles: she headed a girls' mission school,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813156300
• ISBN13: 9780813156309
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher