My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. This work is in public domain.
Introductory Notice
Preface
Introductory Notice
The authoress of this beautiful biographical production is now labouring as a missionary in the Burman Empire. She has succeeded to the toils, as well as to the sacred relations, of the lady whose sufferings and labours for Christ she has so graphically depicted.
Under the graceful pseudonyme of Fanny Forester, Miss Emily C. Chubbuck has for some years held a high place amid the literary circles of America. She is a native of the State of New York. Highly educated and accomplished, her first productions were written while a teacher in a female seminary in Utica, and at once attracted attention and admiration. Early in 1844, while on a visit to the city of New York, she became a contributor to the pages of the New York Mirror. The sketches, essays, and poems which appeared in its pages, were, two a years afterwards, when she was on the eve of sailing for Burmah, reprinted under the title of ‘Alderbrooke.’
On his return to America in 1846, after laying to rest his beloved partner and companion, the subject of this memoir, on the rocky isle of St. Helena, Dr. Judson sought out Miss Chubbuck, then at Philadelphia for her heath, to request the employment of her pen on the narrative of the life’s history of Mrs. Judson. [Continue reading]
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