This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American
fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.
The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude
Eaton was born in England in 1865. Her family moved to Quebec, where she
was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve
siblings. In the 1880s and 1890s she worked as a stenographer, journalist,
...