Earthy, Emily Dora

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380515
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Earthy, Emily Dora
Date(s)	: Created 1917-1930
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Earthy | Emily Dora | fl 1917-1958 | missionary

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Emily Dora Earthy (known as Dora Earthy) worked as a missionary in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from September 1917 to December 1930. She then obtained a grant from the Research Committee of Bantu Studies of the University of Witwatersrand, to cover six month's fieldwork among the Valenge women of that country, compiling raw material for her book Valenge Women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portugese East Africa (Oxford University Press, 1933).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1917-1930, collected by Dora Earthy during her fieldwork amongst the Valenge women, including notes and drafts of her book Valenge Women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portugese East Africa in various typed and hand-written stages.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English; some manuscript notes in Lenge, Chopi

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1987.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel are held Rhodes House Library, South Parks Road, Oxford.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000