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Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton

A Literary Biography

Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton( )
Author: White-Parks, Annette
Foreword by: Daniels, Roger
Series title:Asian American Experience Ser.
ISBN:978-0-252-02113-8
Publication Date:Jul 1995
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $50.00
Book Description:

This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times. The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude Eaton was born in England in 1865. Her family moved to Quebec, where she was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve ......

Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Literary Criticism / Canadian
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & Ethnicity
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds
Author Biography
White-Parks, Annette (Author)
Historian Roger Daniels has written numerous books, mostly on immigration history and Japanese-American internment during World War II. He was past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Immigration History Society. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and on the planning committee for the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island. He has also worked with the National Park Service on historic sites and as a historical consultant for many television programs. As a Fulbright Professor he taught at five universities in Europe and two universities in Canada. His last position was at the University of Cincinnati. Even in retirement, he continues to write, edit, and guest lecture.

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