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Mabel Shaw (missionary)

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Shaw was born in 1889 in Wolverhampton. She was the first born child of Elizabeth Anne, born Purchase and Matthew Shaw who would have four more children. Her father managed a tea-shop. When she was five she went to live with her grandmother and when she was ten she went to boarding school where she
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She died in 1972 in Guildford when she was poor and no longer well known. Her admirers and mourners in Africa raised money to have her remains returned to Zambia.
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Sean Morrow (1986). ""No girl leaves the school unmarried": Mabel Shaw and the education of girls at Mbereshi, Northern Rhodesia, 1915-1940".
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which was the first girls' school in Northern Rhodesia. She served as its Principal until 1940.
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She was trained over four years as a missionary in Edinburgh at
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God's Candlelights: An Educational Venture in Northern Rhodesia
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This biographical article about person in connection with
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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A Treasure of Darkness: An Idyll of African Child Life
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Heath Town
Guildford
St Colm's College
London Missionary Society
OBE
Northern Rhodesia
Africa

Ann Hunter Small
Women's Missionary Training College
Mbereshi Girls' School
Mbereshi
School of Oriental and African Studies
"The Legacy of Mabel Shaw"



"Shaw, Mabel (1888–1973), missionary and educationist"
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Papers of Mabel Shaw
"Mable Shaw: Her story, her legacy – Zambia Daily Mail"
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