Memoir of sarah b. judson, of the american mission to burmah

FORESTER, Fanny

Published by Thomas Nelson, London, 1850

About this Item

230pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Contemporary green morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary school prize inscription to FFEP, ownership inscription of Rebecca L. Cooper to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece and additional title browned. A missionary memoir, first published in 1848, here issued as a part of Thomas Nelson's 'Christian Female Biography' series, of American Baptist Sarah Boardman Judson [nĂ e Hall] (1803-1845). In 1824, Judson sailed to Burma (Myanmar) with her first husband, George Boardman, and there established numerous mission schools whilst proselytising to the native Karen people. She published a Burmese translation of The Pilgrim's Progress and a Peguan translation of the New Testament. Her biographer, American poet Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854), writing under her nom de plume Fanny Forester, would go on to marry Sarah's second husband Adoniram Judson (1788-1850). Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # AQ21057

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Title: Memoir of sarah b. judson, of the american ...

Publisher: Thomas Nelson, London

Publication Date: 1850

Binding: Hardcover