A Sermon, preached at Haverhill, (Mass.) in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell, wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, missionary to India. Who died at the Isle of France, Nov. 30, 1812, aged 19 years. To which are added memoirs of her life

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Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. Fifth Edition. 32mo (14cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; viii,[9]-228pp.; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of Harriet Newell. Moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint starting, textblock toned, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [iii]-iv, stating that "In order to have this little work universally read, every person who will take five copies shall have a sixth copy gratis, and in the same proportion for a greater number." Profits from the work went to the support of the Foreign Mission from America. Early and important contribution to the hagiography of American women missionaries dedicated to the brief life of Harriet Newell (1793-1812). Newell (née Atwood) was an enthusiastic participant in the early years of the Second Great Awakening under the local leadership of Congregationalist minister Abraham Burnham, school principal at the Bradford Academy where Newell was educated from 1807 to 1810. Harriet Atwood married the minister Samuel Newell in February, 1812, and almost immediately after the couple sailed to Calcutta where they served with the English Baptist missionary William Carey. Newell was already of a frail constitution, and the heavy workload, compounded by arduous travel conditions and a shipboard lying-in took their toll, and Newell perished shortly after arriving at the Isle of France, the first female American missionary to die in the field. Fortunately for her contemporaries and historians, Newell left behind a paper trail of childhood diaries and correspondence from her short time in India, much of which is included here. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 36619; see also SABIN 54956 for other editions. N° de ref. del artículo 27428

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