Anna Seward Pruitt

The Days of Small Things Anna Seward Pruitt Republished with Permission edition

Anna Seward Pruitt published this book in1929 after spending a long missionary career in China with her husband C. W. Pruitt. This is the story of her first years in China as only the second woman Southern Baptist Missionary to China, the first being Lottie Moon, who is mentioned about a dozen times mostly in first person accounts, in the text. Her daughter Ida Pruitt went on with Rewi Alley to become one of the few Westerners acknowledged as a friend of early Communist China.