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Tel Sono, the Japanese Reformer. [SIGNED]. An Autobiography
Published by Printed by Hunt & Eaton, New York, 1892
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Small octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). 66pp. Original red cloth decorated in black & blind and lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Signed on a preliminary blank in English and Japanese by Tel Sono. Binding with some minor soiling & rubbing, but still a very good copy. Small, round bookseller's stamp on rear pastedown. Two leaves with a small, minor stain. Tel Sono began business as a lawyer in Tokyo at age 26. She came to San Francisco in 1886 and organized Christian missionary activities to assist Japanese women by education. She established the Benevolent Society for Japanese in San Francisco, taught Japanese language at Mrs. Osborn's Mission Training Inst. in Brooklyn, NY., & was also active in the Women's Temperance Union. She began the Tel Sono Assn. to establish a non-sectarian Christian Training School for Japanese women of the higher classes, to be an example to other classes of women in Japan. This autobiography of the first Japanese woman lawyer is inspiring. (OCLC).
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G. Red decorated binding, black decoration, gilt lettering. Owner name in pencil, stray marks on introduction, cover spotted, pages smudged, edge wear. A young Japanese woman who came to San Francisco in 1886 to study, converted to Methodism, and became involved in Temperance activities. Illustrated by Frontis of author.
