Stephenson, Gladys
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0102 MMS/Special Series/Biographical/China/FBN 31-32 (Boxes 642-643) |
Held at | : School of Oriental and African Studies Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html › |
Full title | : Stephenson, Gladys |
Date(s) | : c1909-1976 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Stephenson | Gladys | d 1989 | medical missionary |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sent by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to the Wuchang district, China, 1915; studied languages in Hankow; served initially at the Hodge Memorial Hospital, Hankow; matron at the Anlu Men's Hospital from c1917; played a pioneering role in training indigenous nursing staff; active in founding the Nurses Association of China, becoming its President, 1924; appointed Principal of the School of Nursing at the new Union Hospital in Hankow, c1927; appointed Director of Nursing Service for the National Flood Relief Commission by the Chinese government, she was active in addressing the effects of serious floods on the refugee camps, 1931; on furlough, 1940; interned in Shanghai, 1942-1945; retired, 1951; settled in Southall, London; deaconess; unmarried; died, 1989.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, c1909-1976, of Sister Gladys Stephenson, comprising diary of journey to China, 1915; journals of visits to Korea and Peking, 1926, 1936 and undated; journal of her time in the internment camp, 1942-1945; diaries recording daily events, 1946-1971; long letter from Gladys Stephenson, 1945, from the Shanghai internment camp recounting her experiences, and typescript copies; manuscript and typescript accounts of a journey to Hong Kong, Malaya and the Holy Land, 1961; other typescript and manuscript notes, accounts, or addresses by Gladys Stephenson recounting her experiences, largely undated, including one relating to the great floods (1931); two photographs of a chapel used by the Methodist hospital, Hankow, and papers relating to a stained glass window, 1940; printed material on Christianity, missionary work and missionaries, nursing and training, and other aspects of life in China, including hospitals in Hankow, 1909-1976, largely dating, 1920s-1960s.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English and Chinese
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted, but only to be viewed on microfiche.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
Archival Information
Archival history:
The papers were deposited with the Methodist Missionary Society and form part of the special series of biographical papers of individual missionaries.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the Methodist Missionary Society from 1978.
Allied Materials
Related material:
The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (Ref: MMS/WMMS), which was succeeded by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: WMMS Annual Report (1918), p 68; The Foreign Field (1915-1916), pp 68-9, 77, 196-8 (including photographs); The Foreign Field (1916-1917), pp 186-7, 221.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2002
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