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of creating a girls’ boarding school whereby girls and young women could receive an education without the social stigma of walking to and from school in public. They also expanded a women's training school by teaching lace making and embroidery. In addition to providing income to
Chinese women, these items were sold to parishioners in Scotland and New Zealand and funded a large portion of the women's mission expenses, making much of the work self-sustaining. The Church of Scotland had many foreign missions across the globe competing for funding. Moore had the advantage of leveraging her network in New Zealand for reliable support, which contributed to the success and expansion of the Women's Mission over the years.
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and his wife, Alice, had first adopted Isobel and Clara Qian but in 1921 when traveling on home leave with the Plants to
England, Isobel and Clara were orphaned when both Plants developed pneumonia aboard the ship and died. Mary Emelia Moore became guardian and trustee of a trust fund given to the
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where she earned a BA in 1893. As a member of the Otago Sunday School Union, the ladies’ committee of the Otago
University Christian Alliance and the Otago University Debating Society, Moore developed leadership skills that would serve her well in China. In 1896, the Yichang Church of Scotland
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between the communists and the nationalists. Between 1948 and 1950, Moore traveled around the world, making stops in
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