Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman (1805–1871) was a pioneer educational
which?] from which she graduated.[2] She continued her career in education and was appointed principal at another boarding school at age twenty-two.[2]
Missionary career in China
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Gillett followed her childhood desire to be a
Congregational Church.[2][4] Together, the Bridgmans began their missionary work in Canton.[2][3][4] The couple adopted two small girls and moved to Shanghai, where Eliza began the first Protestant girls' school there.[5]
In 1862 she was forced to take a furlough in the United States due to health concerns after her husband's death, during which she was run over by a sled.[1][4] Bridgman returned to Peking in 1864, where she opened up Bridgman Girls' College after obtaining substantial land. The Teng Shih K'ou Congregational Church was built in the same year, as part of the college. The academy later became the Women's College of Yenching University and is credited with educating a large number of female Chinese leaders.[4]
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman is buried in Shanghai next to her husband Elijah Bridgman.
Works
- Elijah Coleman Bridgman, ed. Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman (1864). The Pioneer of American Missions in China: The Life and Labors of Elijah Coleman Bridgman.[6]
- Eliza Jane Gillett (1853) Daughters of China; or, Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial[7]
References
- ^ a b "Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman". Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9780674627345. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ a b "Bridgman, Eliza Jane [Gillett] (1805–1871) Pioneer educational missionary in China". Boston University School of Theology History of Missiology. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9780802846808.
- ^ "Bridgman, Eliza Jane [Gillett] (1805–1871) Pioneer educational missionary in China". Boston University School of Theology History of Missiology. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ Bridgman, Elijiah Coleman (1864). Bridgman, Eliza Jane Gillett (ed.). The Pioneer of American Missions in China: the Life and Labors of Elijah Coleman Bridgman. New York : A. D. F. Randolph.
- ^ Bridgman, Eliza Jane Gillett (1853). Daughters of China; or, Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire. New York, Carter.
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