Betty B
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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Sometimes I was awakened at dawn by the sound of gongs and bells, and would look out of my window to see a funeral procession marshalled in the courtyard.
In her spare time she continued to write, and various articles and fairy stories of hers appeared in The Wide World.
The girls' realm and the ladies' realm.
At last her health broke down and she gave up her post at the school, and devoted herself more closely to literary work.
Which resulted in nineteen oh three in the publication of the Japanese fairy book.
A work which has now become a classic.
At the same time she belonged to several of the societies, patriotic, educational, and charitable.
by which the Japanese ladies so quietly yet so efficiently aid the cause of true progress in their country.
Indeed, it was in the interests of Japanese womanhood that she first took up her pen, resolved to dispel the hopeless misconceptions which existed in regard to it in Western minds.
To use her own words, when I was last in England and Europe, I
And found by the questions asked me that very mistaken notions about Japan, and especially about its women, existed generally.
I determined if possible to write so as to dispel these wrong conceptions.
Hence my stories of Japanese heroines Eoyagi and Kesa Gozen in the nineteenth century, and Tomae Gozen, last year, ladies pictorial.
It has been my hope, too, that the ancient tales and legends retold in English, may show to the West some of the good old ideals and sentiments for which the Japanese lived and died.
But other than purely studious interests entered into Oy's life.
She had many friends in the court and diplomatic circles, and they drew her more and more into society, where she was always a welcome addition to any gathering.
She saw every side of the national existence, imperial, official, scholastic, and was equally intimate with the small but brilliant foreign society.
Her single state was a mystery to all except her closest friends.
They knew that she had resolved never to marry until she met a man who should fulfill all her ideals.
She met him at last, in nineteen oh four she made the acquaintance of Yukio Ozaki, the mayor of Tokyo.
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