Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950
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Author_Hugh Morrison
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children and empire
children and religion
children and spatiality
emotional labour
emotional narratives
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happiness
missionary children
New Zealand
Protestant missions
Scotland
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- ISBN 9781526194848
- Weight: 378g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
Hugh Morrison is Professor of Education at The University of Otago/Otakou Whakaihu Waka, New Zealand
