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Harriett Low Hillard (May 18, 1809 – 1877) was an American woman of letters and diarist. From 1829 to 1833 she lived in the Portuguese colony of Macau on the South China coast and she and her sickly aunt became the first American women to go to China. [1]
Harriett Low Hillard, née le 18 mai 1809 et morte en 1877 et une femme de lettres et diariste américaine. Entre 1829 et 1833, elle vit dans la colonie portugaise de Macao, dans le sud de la Chine, devenant l’une des premières jeunes américaine à vivre en Chine.
Harriet Low, a 21-year-old Puritan from Salem, Mass., tried to topple the barriers to American women in Canton, China. Canton, the epicenter of the China trade in 1830, barred all foreign women from the trading port. But Harriet and her aunt stole into the city dressed as boys.
Harriett Low Hillard, née le 18 mai 1809 et morte en 1877 et une femme de lettres et diariste américaine. Entre 1829 et 1833, elle vit dans la colonie portugaise de Macao, dans le sud de la Chine, devenant l’une des premières jeunes américaine à vivre en Chine.
31 mai 2024 · Harriett Low Hillard (1809-1877) was the second child of eleven of Seth Low, a merchant in Salem, Massachusetts, and his wife Mary Porter Low. At age 20, she accompanied her uncle and aunt, William Henry and Abigail Knapp Low, to China for five years to be her aunt's companion.
1 janv. 2006 · Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only permitted gateway of Canton. To this European enclave on the China coast in 1829 came Harriett...
7 août 2014 · Harriet Low, painting by George Chinnery, 1833. In 1833, she was 24 years old and had been living in the exotic Portuguese colony of Macao since 1829. One of the first American women to live in China, she was keeping her aunt Abigail company while her uncle, William Low, managed business in Canton for Russell & Company.
