Beckingsale, Laura Elsie
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 354917
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Domain: archival
Title: Beckingsale, Laura Elsie
Date(s) of contents: Created 1911-1912
Level of description:
Extent and medium: 1 box
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s): Beckingsale | Laura Elsie | 1886-1983 | missionary and teacher
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.
Custodial history:
Immediate source of acquisition: Donated in 1977.
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
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.
System of arrangement: The letters are arranged in chronological order.
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English
Conditions governing access: Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction: No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids: Unpublished handlist.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000
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- Subjects
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- Ancient religions
- Asian cultures
- Baptists
- Christianity
- Christians
- Educational missionaries
- Educational missionary work
- Educational personnel
- Lay missionaries
- Missionaries
- Missionary work
- National cultures
- Political movements
- Protestant nonconformists
- Protestant nonconformity
- Protestantism
- Protestants
- Religions
- Religious activities
- Religious groups
- Religious institutions
- Religious movements
- Revolutionary movements
- Teachers
- Women missionaries
- Women teachers
- Women's missionary work
- Ancient religions
- Personal names
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- Beckingsale | Laura Elsie | 1886-1983 | missionary and teacher
- Beckingsale | Laura Elsie | 1886-1983 | missionary and teacher
- Corporate names
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- Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society
- Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society
- Places
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- China
- East Asia
- Hankow
- Hubei
- Wuchang
- Wuhan
- China