Light on the Dark River; or, Memorials of Mrs. Henrietta A. L. Hamlin, Missionary in Turkey. By Margarette Woods Lawrence.
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Link Singerman ID: supp0310
Year: 1854
Entry: [Lander, Meta]. Light on the Dark River; or, Memorials of Mrs. Henrietta A. L. Hamlin, Missionary in Turkey. By Margarette Woods Lawrence. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. 321 p.
Author/Editor: Lander, Meta
Location: Boston, MA
Title: Light on the Dark River; or, Memorials of Mrs. Henrietta A. L. Hamlin, Missionary in Turkey. By Margarette Woods Lawrence.
Printer/Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Language: English
Notes: Contains unflattering references to the Turkish Jews, as in, "But the Jews generally, both in this city [Constantinople] and throughout the empire, are an ignorant, superstitious, filthy, lying, covetous, greedy, servile race. The curse is still poured out upon them without abatement" (p. 195). Prefatory "To the Reader" is by R. S. Storrs. Frequently reissued.