Dorothea Hosie

**Dorothea Hosie** née Dorothea Soothill, wanda aka fi sani da **Dorothea, Lady Hosie** (1885 - 15 Fabrairu 1959) ta kasance mai shirya fina-finai na Burtaniya kuma marubuciya a kasar Sin. Ta taimaka wa mahaifinta da mijinta, Alexander Hosie, tare da rubuce-rubucen su amma lokacin da suka mutu ta buga littattafai a kanta. A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu ta kasance mataimakiyar shugabar makarantar masu zaman kansu da aka kwashe a Somerset .

## Rayuwa
An haifi Hosie a Ningbo a kasar Sin a shekara ta 1885. Iyayenta sune Lucy da William Edward Soothill; mahaifinta mai wa'azi ne na Methodist .  Iyayenta suna so su kira ta Dorothy amma jami'in diflomasiyyar Burtaniya wanda ya yi rajistar haihuwarta ya yanke shawarar cewa Dorothea ta fi kyau. Ta yi karatu a Cambridge a Kwalejin Newnham .

Ta auri Sir Alexander Hosie (1853-1925), sama da shekaru talatin da ta girme ta, a 1913. Ya yi aiki a matsayin wakilin Burtaniya a tsibirin Pagoda, kusa da Fuzhou a kasar Sin, kuma ya kasance mai tara shuke-shuke mai daraja a yammacin kasar Sin, Tibet da Taiwan. An sanya sunan jinsin Hosiea don girmama shi. Ya kuma kasance marubucin Three Years in Western China (1890) da On the Trail of Opium Poppy (2 vols., 1914).

Mijinta ya mutu a Sandown, a ranar 10 ga Maris 1925. Ta taimaka masa a rubuce-rubucensa kuma kafin hakan ta taimaka wa mahaifinta. A cikin shekara kafin mijinta ya mutu ta buga Two Gentlemen of China  kuma ta rubuta ƙarin bayani a kan asusun kanta. *Hoton wata mace ta kasar Sin* ya biyo baya a 1929. A cikin 1930 ta sadu da Miss Gladys Muriel Starkey wacce ta yi aiki a Brampton Down School, Kent. Wannan zai zama abokantaka mai tsawo.

A cikin 1936 ta fara bincike don wani littafi wanda a cikin 1938 za a kira Brave New China . A lokacin wannan binciken ta kirkiro fim mai son sa'a daya wanda yanzu Cibiyar Fim ta Burtaniya ke gudanarwa. Fim din ya fara ne a sabon zauren tunawa da Sun Yat-sen da aka gina a Guangzhou sannan ya ci gaba da yin rikodin fim a gabashin China.

Ta shirya fassarar mahaifinta William Edward Soothill na Analects of Confucius wanda Oxford University Press ta buga a 1937. 

A shekara ta 1938 ta zama mataimakiyar shugabar makarantar 'yan mata ta Brampton Down . An kwashe makarantar zuwa Henlade House a Ruishton a Somerset .  Ta kasance a can a duk lokacin yakin kuma ta bar a 1946. Yayinda take can ta rubuta The Pool of Ch'ien Lung wanda ke game da lokacinta a China a 1936. 

An buga aikinta *Yesu da Mata* a 1946 kuma an taƙaita shi kuma an sake masa suna The Master Calleth for Thee kuma an buga shi a Amurka. An sayar da fiye da 130,000 kuma an sake buga shi a Burtaniya a ƙarƙashin taken asali. Littafin ya dubi dukkan Linjila huɗu kuma ya tattauna rawar da mata ke takawa tare da Kristanci.

Ta yi ritaya a ƙarshen shekara ta 1946, tare da Miss Starkey . Tare, sun koma Wiltshire kuma sun zauna a Appletree Cottage, Redlynch, kimanin kilomita takwas daga Salisbury, inda suka halarci gonar inabi. Har yanzu ana iya samun gidan a yau, a cikin New Forest National Park.

Hosie ya mutu a asibitin Salisbury a ranar 15 ga Fabrairu 1959.  An binne ta tare da mijinta a Tsibirin Wight . 

Bayan mutuwar Hosie, Gladys ta kasance a Appletree Cottage har zuwa mutuwarta a shekarar 1965. 

## Ayyuka

* *Maza Biyu na kasar Sin*, 1924, 5th edn 1929. 
* *Hoton wata mace ta kasar Sin*, 1929 da 1938 edn.
* Sabuwar China mai ƙarfin zuciya, 1938/1940.
* *Ruwa na Ch'ien Lung*, 1944.
* *Yesu da Mata*, 1946, (Amurka edn, 1954, a matsayin The Master Calleth for You kuma a Burtaniya a matsayin *Yesu da Mata*.

## Manazarta