Julia Emily Sass (d. 20 October 1891), was a British missionary, active in
Sierra Leone in the middle of the nineteenth century.
In 1849 she became the first principal of
Annie Walsh Memorial School
The Annie Walsh Memorial School is an all-girls secondary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was established in 1849 originally in Charlotte, Sierra Leone, Charlotte, a newly established village for recaptives. It is claimed to be the oldest g ...
,
where she has a
school house named after her. She was responsible for the setting up of this school, but was absent from Sierra Leone from 1853 to 1855 for health reasons.
Originally she was appointed superintendent of the Female Institution,
Freetown under the auspices of the
Church Missionary Society.
She started off with three pupils, a number which doubled after a few months. The curriculum consisted of
housework, bible training and schoolroom teaching.
The school was set up to train the wives of missionaries and only accepted the daughters conceived in Christian wedlock. The school was consciously designed to replicate middle class attitudes in England.
She was interested in horticulture and corresponded with
Joseph Dalton Hooker of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
See also
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Sarah Hartwig (missionary)
References
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Anglican missionaries in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leonean educators
19th-century Sierra Leonean people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
1891 deaths