It is difficult to over-estimate justhow remarkable Jennie Taylor was. Against the backdrop of theconsiderable societal restraints placed on Victiorian women, this easy-goingyet adventurous woman was prepared to follow God's call, becoming a truepioneer on the mission field in China. In the name of the gospel, Jennieled a party of women hundreds of miles further into inland China than any otherwestern woman had gone before, and founded and ran two schools. She survivedtwo typhoons, cholera, near death in childbirth, and coped with theadministration of the China Inland Mission whilst enduring long periods awayfrom her husband James Hudson Taylor. In Jennie Hudson Taylor, MarionOsgood brings Jennie out of the shadows of her more well-known husband JamesHudson Taylor, providing an eye-opening biography of this amazing missionarypioneer and woman of faith, and reveals the outstanding contribution Jenniemade to the gospel through the China Inland Mission.
