Cramp, J. M. A Memoir of Madame Feller: with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the Grande Ligne Mission. London: Elliot Stock. c. 1880 [10724]
Brown cloth decorated in black & gilt, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, tipped in real photo as frontispiece, viii, 254 pages. Cheaply produced and now with open hinges, shaken, paper on which the photo is mounted partly torn, tissue guard partly torn. Pages are dark. Poor. Hardcover.
No. 1290 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "Chapter 3 has material on revival in Scotland, the Haldanes, etc."
Henrietta Feller (1800-1868), b. Montagny, Switzerland; d. Grande-Ligne, Quebec. She was the founder of the French Canadian Protestant mission at Grande-Ligne, Lower Canada (Quebec). She learned medicine from her father, who was director of the city hospital of Lausanne. She and her husband were sympathetic to evangelical converts outside of the established church, largely as a result of the missionary work of the Scottish revivalist Robert Haldane. After the death of her family and recovery from illness she became a missionary to Protestants in French Canada near Montreal. "She taught, dispensed rudimentary medical services, distributed Bibles, and provided children's care...Persecution prompted Feller and the congregation to flee to Vermont...She was the instrument of conversion of a number of educated French Canadians and the inspiration of Baptists who formally organized a French Canadian Missionary Society." - Paul R. Dekar, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. She organized a boarding-school and Bible college for Baptist ministers at Grande-Ligne known as Feller College, or Institut Feller, which lasted until 1967.
