Women's mission house, Kulangsu Island, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, ca. 1895

"Ladies' House in Amoy". The coming of single women missionaries to Amoy {Xiamen} necessitated separate accommodation suitable for unmarried women missionaries. The first single woman missionary of the English Presbyterian mission was Georgina Maclagan who arrived in 1882.; Album containing approximately 170 photographs and 55 coloured drawings belonging to Lilias Graham, of the Womens' Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission in China. Lilias Graham was an honorary missionary with the WMA from 1888 to 1906 when ill-health forced her to retire. She herself funded much of the WMA work in Chuan-Chow [Quanzhou], Fujian Province