The Japanese reformer
Subtitle: an autobiography
By: Tel Sono.
Publisher: Printed by Hunt & Eaton
Published: 1892
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Sono, Tel.; Benevolent Society for Japanese (San Francisco, Calif.); Christian biography -- Japan.; Christian biography -- California -- San Francisco.; Reformers -- Japan -- Biography.; Reformers -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.; Christian biography.; Women lawyers -- Japan -- Biography.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Introd. by Hester Alway.

Library's copy signed by author.