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Harriet Newell Noyes (; March 5, 1844 – January 16, 1924) was an American Presbyterian educator, writer, and missionary for fifty years. She founded the True Light Middle School, the first women's school in Guangdong Province, China, and is credited with establishing the first generation of professional women of that province.〔 ==Biography== Noyes was born on March 5, 1844, in Guilford, Ohio. Her father, Varnum Noyes (1804 - 1888) was a Presbyterian minister. She was her parents sixth child〔 and one of three of the children who were Chinese missionaries. She was named for Harriet Newell who was a famous missionary. In January 1868, the Presbyterian Church of the United States (PCUSA) sent her as a missionary to Fangcun, Guangzhou, China (广州市芳村区) where she learned to speak fluent Cantonese. On June 16, 1872, she founded the first school for women in Guangdong Province – the True Light Academy in Shakee.〔(那夏理：创办真光学堂的洋女子 ) (Founder of the True Light Academy ), retrieved 1 April 2015〕 She had spent two years preparing to open the school and she used $1000 she had collected. Noyes was surprised to find the resistance there was to the education of women in the area. She had sufficient resources to supply free education to thirty females and ten of these would be married. When the school first opened, there were only six students and three of them were married.〔 The school that she started was a primary school, but it grew from offering three years of education to offering nine despite having an early disastrous fire. The school broke the 100-student barrier in 1887 and in 1894 had 200 students. In 1917, a middle or secondary school was opened, which became the (Kowloon) True Light Middle School.〔 In 1919, Noyes published ''A Light in the Land of Sinim: Forty-Five Years in the True Light Seminary, 1872–1917''. Noyes returned to the United States in May 1923 when she received a letter from the secretary to Sun Yat-sen thanking her for helping with the education of 6,000 pupils at the "True Light" Seminary.〔Letter located in the Department of Special Collections at The College of Wooster.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harriet Newell Noyes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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