biography
pronunciation:
[aylwerd]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1902–70)
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| biography:
| Missionary in China, born in London, UK. In 1930, she spent her entire savings on a railway ticket to Tientsin in N China. With a Scottish missionary, Mrs Jeannie Lawson, the pair founded an inn, the famous Inn of the Sixth Happiness, in an outpost at Yangcheng. From there, in 1938, she trekked across the mountains leading over 100 children to safety when the war with Japan brought fighting to the area. She returned to England in 1948, preached for five years, then in 1953 settled in Taiwan as head of an orphanage. Ingrid Bergman played her in the popular film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958). |
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