A a life of Marion Scott Stevenson Scott, I. G. creator text biography enk London Hodder & Stoughton 1932 monographic eng

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320 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 19 cm The Call - Preparation (1871-1907): Home and family -- Early education -- The Ministers' Daughters' College ; Germany -- Invalid years -- Home and church activities -- Renewed consecration : the call to Africa -- Apprenticeship (1907-1912): Founding of the Kikuyu mission -- Miss Stevenson arrives in Africa -- The Kikuyu people -- First steps -- The end of a phase -- Reinforcements and new buildings -- Village visitation -- Winning the girls -- School and boarding-house -- Village work in 1908 -- Diversities and diversions of missionary life -- Progress and development in 1909 and 1910 -- Furlough and return Fulfilment (1912-1926): On the road to Tumutumu -- Raw material -- The girls' hard fight -- "In journeyings oft" -- The Kikuyu Conference, 1913 -- Jack of all trades -- The war period -- The aftermath of war : Kikuyu Conference 1918 -- The rising tide (1919-1921) -- "Our mother" -- Flood tide (1922-1925) -- Education in theory and practice -- Translation work : the last furlough The crowning years (1927-1930): Chogoria, 1927-- A dweller in tents -- The last circuit, 1929 -- Illness and death. by Mrs. Henry E. Scott. f-ke--- Stevenson, Marion Scott 1871-1930 Church of Scotland Missions Church of Scotland. Kikuyu (African people) Missions Missions Kenya Kikuyu (African people) Missions Missions Kenya BV3625.K42 S840 266.52 SCO GUA 760923 20240417062111.0 ocm02459648 eng