Imagining the missionary hero : juvenile missionary biographies, c.1870-1917

This thesis examines the fascinating and complex body of work surrounding the missionary hero as a product of late imperial ideas of the heroic produced in the form of biography. It will concentrate upon how the literature was appropriated, reproduced and disseminated via the Sunday school network t...

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Main Author: McColl, Julie Anne
Other Authors: Towsey, Mark ; Davies, Andrew ; Cleall, Esme
Published: University of Liverpool 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.755544