Francesca Law French

Francesca Law French

Francesca Law French 馮貴石 (12 December 1871-2 August 1960) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China. She served with the China Inland Mission.

French was born in Bruges, Belgium, the second daughter of John Erington French and his first cousin Frances Elizabeth French. She was educated at the secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland. Her older sister, Evangeline F. French had gone to China in 1893, although Francesca wanted to go to China also, duties at home kept her in England. After her mother died, in 1908 she joined her sister in China.

Francesca, Evangeline, and Mildred Cable traveled and taught in Central Asia for 15 years until the Communists forced them out. They were known as the "Trio".

Francesca died on 2 August 1960 in London, England.

Bibliography

* "Mildred Cable and Francesca French, Dispatches from North-West Kansu" (1925)
* "Through Jade Gate and Central Asia" (1927)
* "Something Happened" (1933)
* "A Desert journal: Letter from Central Asia" (1934)
* "Ambassadors for Christ" (1935)
* "Toward Spiritual Maturity: A Handbook for Those Who Seek It" (1939)
* "A Parable of Jade" (1940)
* "The Gobi Desert" (1942)
* "The Book which Demands a Verdict" (1946)
* "George Hunter Apostle of Turkestan" (1948)
* W. J. Platt, "Three Women: Mildred Cable, Francesca French, Evangeline French: The Authorized Biography" (1964).

Further reading

*Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission
*George W. Hunter
*Percy C. Mather
*List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China

External links

* [http://www2.oakland.edu/oujournal/files/Benson.pdf Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China] (article by Dr. Benson)
* [http://www.omf.org/omf/us OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship)]
* [http://www.wingsworldquest.org/cgi-bin/iowa/explorers/record/171.html]


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