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Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America's First Appointed Woman Missionary
By author:
Reid S. Trulson
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881468038
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HH1012
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Charlotte Atlee White was the first woman officially appointed as a missionary by any denomination or mission agency. The scandal of her 1815 appointment required her to prevail over gender bias, survive attempts to revoke her appointment, and surmount the challenge of insufficient funding. After marrying Joshua Rowe, a widowed missionary in Calcutta in 1816, she remained in India to serve with the British Baptists. There she overcame local prejudice against educating girls while starting schools, teaching in Hindi, and writing a Hindi spelling and grammar book as teaching aids
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