Tounghoo Women

Ellen nee Huntly Bullard Mason was an American Baptist missionary. She was the wife of Francis Mason (1799-1874), an American missionary and naturalist who in 1830 was sent by the American Baptist Missionary Union to labor among the Karens in Burma. Ellen helped to inspire the founding of the Woman's Union Missionary Society. Her works on the subject include: A Talk With the Ganges; or, An Epithalamium on the First Hindu Widow-Marriage (1860), Tounghoo Women (1860), Civilizing Mountain Men; or, Sketches of Mission Work Among the Karens (1862), Great Expectations Realized; or, Civilizing Mountain Men (1862), A Song of the Famine, etc (1874), Dr. and Mrs. Mason's Land Leases in Toungoo, etc (with Francis Mason) (1874), The Last Days of the Rev. F. Mason, etc (1874), The Mountain Karen Colony in Toungoo, Burma (1877) and The Toungoo God-Language Conspiracy (1878).