Brittan, Miss Harriette G. Shoshie, the Hindoo Zenana Teacher. New-York: Thomas Whittaker, 1873. First Edition. [10698]
Green cloth, dampstain on the front board, end papers, and first few leaves, very faint by the title page. 7 x 4 3/4 inches, tight, fraying to the spine ends & corner tips. 221 pp. plus catalogue. Fair. Hardcover.
The author wrote this to show to the world how badly women in India were treated, and to promote missionary work among them.
Points of interest are an orphanage, castes, Zenana work and homes, cruel superstitions, widowhood, customs and habits, transmigration of souls, brahmins, funeral rites, witchcraft, and the goddess Kali.
Harriette Gertrude Brittan (1822-1897), b. England; d. San Francisco. She came to New York with her parents when but a child and became a missionary with the Protestant Episcopal Church to Liberia. Her health suffered in that country, and, upon returning to the United States for recovery, was later sent by the Woman's Union Missionary Society to Calcutta, where she labored for twenty years. Her last missionary efforts were thirteen years in Japan (1880-1893), where she had charge of a large mission for destitute children.
