Tel Sono, the Japanese Reformer. [SIGNED]. An Autobiography

Sono, Tel; Hester Alway (introduction). Tel Sono, the Japanese Reformer. [SIGNED]. An Autobiography. New York: Printed by Hunt & Eaton, 1892. 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) Very good. Hardcover. (52697) $70