The Serampore Quartet: The Vital Role of Hannah Marshman in the Serampore Mission (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798385270903)

Hannah Marshman is rarely named among the great figures of Protestant missions, yet her life was inextricably woven into one of the most influential missionary movements of the nineteenth century. Though she is often remembered only as the wife of Joshua Marshman, Hannah's story reveals a deeper and more demanding form of faithfulness--one marked by endurance, conviction, and costly obedience in the pioneer days of modern missions.



This book recenters Hannah Marshman within the Serampore Mission, not by reshaping her into a modern heroine but by taking her context seriously. Drawing on journal extracts, her letters, and the world she inhabited, the book explores how Hannah's monumental domestic labor, pioneering educational practices, intense spiritual formation, and profound perseverance helped establish and sustain the Serampore missionary enterprise. By recovering Hannah Marshman's substantial influence, this study invites readers to reconsider whose faithfulness counts in missions history--and how God's work so often advances through unseen, steadfast lives.







Author: Sydney Dixon
ISBN-13: 9798385270903
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d