Sono

1892 · ref. 52697 — New York: Printed by Hunt & Eaton 1892. Hardcover. 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. Printed by Hunt & Eaton hardcover books