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Padwick, Constance E. Heroines of Healing: A Book for Leaders Amongst Working Girls. [London]: UCME/Church Missionary Society, 1915. Title Variant: . . . Amongst Senior Girls. London: UCME, 1922; Edinburgh House, 1927.

Blue paper cover, frayed spine, black-ink image on front cover of uniformed nurse standing over a dark-skinned patient on a cot in what could be a public square in the East. 62 pages, priced 4d. (fourpence) "From All Missionary Societies" in the same series as a618 by Padwick. A short prefce "To the Leader" dated Thorney, July 1915, urges lessons to link "the service of the spirit with the physical activities" of the girls, and seems to suggest that England had become too materialist before the war.

Actual contents: Doctor Susie Rijnhart, Pioneer. I. The Beginning of the Adventure; II. Was the Adventure Worth While; Ramabai, the Mother of Mukti. III. The Path of Preparation; IV. The Home at Mukti; Mary Read, the Mother of the Lepers. V. The Lonely Path; VI. The Heights Beautiful. Each section begins with the name and epithet phrase above an epigraph, then the first chapter on a new page, with Date of Main Incidents in parentheses. A paragraph on sources is followed by one headed "Leader's Thoughts on Giving the Lesson," with a note that "if the lesson is taken with a Bible Class," the specific text should be read. Right above the start of the narrative, an Introduction in bold type could be a model for what the leader says, and throughout such bold interjections provide model questions to ask the class. Sections of the story have small-caps titles guiding the response, and the chapter concludes with a page of "After the Lesson." In short, this is a very thorough handy teacher's manual as well as biographical anthology. The activities of the heroines of healing are dramatically and at times realistically told amid the broad statements of precept. Mary Reed, a leper herself, served the lepers of India as Florence Nightingale had longed to do from her own invalid bed (55).

TOC: Dr. Susie Rijnhart; Ramabai; Mary Reed.

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