Evangeline Frances "Eva" French

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Evangeline Frances "Eva" French 馮貴珠 (1869-8 July 1960) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China. She served with the China Inland Mission.

Evangeline was born in Algeria, the second daughter of John Erington French and his first cousin Frances Elizabeth French. She was educated at a secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland. She left for China in 1893 and was assigned to the Huozhou, Shanxi station. After seven years at her station the Boxer Rebellion of the summer of 1900 forced her to flee China. After a furlough in England she returned to China in 1902. She was joined by her sister Francesca French in 1908, after there mother had died.

Known as the "Trio", Francesca, Evangeline, and Mildred Cable itinerated throughout Central Asia.

Evangeline died at Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, 8 July 1960.

[edit] 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).

[edit] Further reading

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

[edit] External links

• Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China (article by Dr. Benson)
• OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship)