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This article is basically a biography of Lydia Mary Fay. It also contains a section of significant information highlighted as noteworthy. Though brief, the author describes the most important aspects of Mary Fay’s life and work.
Summary
Mary Fay was born in 1804 in Bennington, Vermont, U.S.A, and died in October 1878 in Chefoo (today Yantai), Shandong Province, North China. Her life story demonstrates people who lived for a purpose, as narrated by Welch. She spent her early life in Albany, New York. Her education and wide reading gave her a Eurocentric literary worldview. She described her life as a path of loneliness and ...
