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Taiwan in Time: Tainan s first female evangelists

<strong>May 2 to May 8</strong> In 1898, the all-male Tainan Mission Council was upset that female missionaries were carrying out projects without their consent. The Presbyterian Church of England began sending single professional or semi-professional women abroad in 1878. There were three of them in Tainan: Joan Stuart, Annie Butler and Margaret Barnett, who took turns running the Sinlou Girls’ School (新樓女學校, today’s Chang Jung Girls’ Senior High School). Opened in 1887, it was the first Western-style school for women in southern Taiwan, and the only admission requirement was no foot-binding. Reverend William Campbell wrote a 11-page letter to the trio on

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