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Beckingsale, Laura Elsie


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 354917

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Beckingsale, Laura Elsie

Date(s): Created 1911-1912

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Beckingsale | Laura Elsie | 1886-1983 | missionary and teacher

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Laura Elsie Beckingsale was born on 1st September 1886 in Camden Town, North London. She was educated privately at first, and then attended Bestraven High School, Brondesbury, until she was eighteen. After teaching for a year elsewhere, she returned to Bestraven as a member of staff. At the age of twenty-three she entered the Women's Missionary College, Edinburgh, and in March 1911, went to Wuchang, China, with the London Missionary Society. She remained there until 1915, when she returned to England under medical advice, arriving March 1. A year later she resigned her connection with the London Missionary Society and joined the Baptist Missionary Society, for work in China. She was put in charge of a girl's boarding school at Tai Yuanfu Shansi. She finally returned to England in 1939. Laura Beckingsale never married. She died in 1983.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters, 1911-1912, from Laura Beckingsale, written in diary form to colleagues in London describing her experiences during the Chinese Revolution of 1911-1912, in Wuchang and Hankow, where she worked for the London Missionary Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The letters are arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1977.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS).

The Baptist Missionary Society Archive is held at the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asian cultures | National cultures
Baptists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Educational missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Educational missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Lay missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Revolutionary movements | Political movements
Women missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Women teachers | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Womens missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Nonconformists

Personal names
Beckingsale | Laura Elsie | 1886-1983 | missionary and teacher

Corporate names
Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society

Places
Wuchang | China | East Asia
Wuhan | Hubei | China | East Asia
Hankow x Wuhan