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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

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(1892 - 1958)

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis grew up in Baltimore and became a Methodist missionary to China where she arrived in 1917, working in schools in Nanking and Chungking. Invalided home in the 1920’s she wrote novels and short stories based on her experiences.



Bibliography

Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)

A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)

At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1933
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1932

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