Martha (Foster) Crawford, of Alabama, was a Baptist missionary and wife of Tarleton Perry Crawford. Her diary describes her experiences as a missionary in China, conditions in Shanghai and afterwards at Tengchow, Shantung, and her reactions to the Civil War in the United States. The diary documents the experiences of an American Protestant missionary in China with a day-by-day record of her life.
Diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the...
