Beschreibung:
This memoir traces Hannah Kilham's involvement in philanthropic, educational and missionary work with women in Britain, Ireland and West Africa.
Preface; 1. Early life; 2. Extracts from the correspondence which passed between Alexander Kilham and Hannah Spurr previous to their marriage; 3. Her marriage with Alexander Kilham; 4. Hannah Kilham joins the Society of Friends; 5. Her prospects of visiting Africa; 6. Joins the British and Irish Ladies' Society, and undertakes in its behalf a visit to Ireland; 7. Her first voyage to Africa; 8. Visits Sierra-Leone; 9. Departure from Sierra-Leone; 10. Returns to England; 11. Her labours for ameliorating the condition of the poor in St. Giles's; 12. Her second voyage to Africa; 13. Her third voyage to Africa; 14. Her continued exertions on behalf of the liberated African children; 15. Receives fifty-six children from the Church Missionary School, which is relinquised - Death; Appendices.