Harriet Low

Harriett Low Hillard
Harriett Low, 1833 by George Chinnery
Born(1809-05-18)May 18, 1809
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Died1877 (1878) (aged 68)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forMacau journal, 1829–1833
SpouseJohn Hillard
Children
  • Katharine
  • Mary Louise
  • Ellen
  • Harriet
  • 1 other daughter
  • 3 sons (2 were twins and died at a young age)
Parents
  • Seth Low
  • Mary Porter Low
Relatives

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] During her stay from 1829 to 1833, she wrote a journal in the form of letters to her older sister Molly (Mary Ann, 1808–1851), and became acquainted with many of the influential individuals in the colony. After her return to the United States, she married and moved to London, returning to New York with her husband and five daughters in 1848. Her journal is now part of the Low-Mills collection in the Library of Congress.[2]

  1. ^ Puga, Rogério Miguel (June 2008). "Interpreting Macau through the Journals of Harriett Low and Rebecca Chase Kinsman". Journal of Sino-Western Cultural Studies (中西文化研究) (in English and Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-03-25.
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