Bibliograph

The diary of Ethel Jones, Marie Caroline Cooney

Type

Label

The diary of Ethel Jones, Marie Caroline Cooney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The diary of Ethel Jones

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marie Caroline Cooney

Summary

The Diary of Ethel Jones is the account of a young American missionary nurse who went to China in 1937, just prior to the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. For five-years, she worked in a hospital in Kioshan Honan, in central China. Within the first year following her arrival in China, the war arrived at the doorstep of the hospital where she was serving. For the next four-years, she helped care for wounded Chinese soldiers and civilians while experiencing continued harassment from Japanese forces

Target audience

adult

Classification