Light in the Queen’s Garden by Sandra E. Bonura Missionary History was placed in the school

was placed in the school and Pope played a significant role in mothering and shaping her future

The practice of keeping journals and diaries was well established among the Hawaiian alii

she adapted the curriculum to prepare her students for entry into meaningful careers

Temperance societies were popular throughout New England and brought to Hawai’i by the missionaries

Some of the Ali’i were skeptical of the temperance movement but some accepted and endorsed the policy

Light in the Queen’s Garden by Sandra E. Bonura Missionary History was placed in the schoolAt the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiahao Seminary, a boarding school for girls, she couldnt have imagined it would become a lifelong career of service to Hawaiian women, or that she would become closely involved in the political turmoil soon to sweep over the Kingdom of Hawaii. Light in the Queens Garden offers for the first time a day by day accounting of the events surrounding the coup dtat as