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    Edith Maude Eaton was a Chinese American author who wrote short stories about Chinese immigrants in America in the early 1900s. She was born in England in 1865 to an English father and Chinese mother. After traveling extensively as a young adult, she began writing stories focused on the Chinese immigrant experience while living in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She wrote under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far and adopted a Chinese American identity. Her unpublished book Mrs. Spring Fragrance consisted of short stories depicting Chinese immigrant life, but it was not published before her death in 1914.

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    Edith Maude Eaton was a Chinese American author who wrote short stories about Chinese immigrants in America in the early 1900s. She was born in England in 1865 to an English father and Chinese mother. After traveling extensively as a young adult, she began writing stories focused on the Chinese immigrant experience while living in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She wrote under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far and adopted a Chinese American identity. Her unpublished book Mrs. Spring Fragrance consisted of short stories depicting Chinese immigrant life, but it was not published before her death in 1914.

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    Edith Maude Eaton was a Chinese American author who wrote short stories about Chinese immigrants in America in the early 1900s. She was born in England in 1865 to an English father and Chinese mother. After traveling extensively as a young adult, she began writing stories focused on the Chinese immigrant experience while living in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She wrote under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far and adopted a Chinese American identity. Her unpublished book Mrs. Spring Fragrance consisted of short stories depicting Chinese immigrant life, but it was not published before her death in 1914.

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    Biographyoftheauthor
    EdithMaudeEatonwasaChineseAmericanauthorwhowroteshortstoriesandjournals
    aboutChinesepeopleinAmericaduringthe1900s.Shewasbornin1865inEnglandtoEdward
    Eaton,anEnglishshippingmerchant,andGraceTrefusisEaton,aChinesewoman.Shewentto
    schoolinCanada,andeventhoughshewasacceptedasBritish,shewouldproudlyannounce
    herselfasChinese.
    Whensheturnedeighteen,shebecameareporterandtraveledtomanyplaces.Shealso
    startedtowriteshortstoriesasshetraveled.Herearlystorieswerepublishedinthelocalpapers.
    Afterawhile,shestartedtowriteaboutChineseimmigrantsinAmerica.Shebecamemoreand
    moreinterestedinwritingshortstories..
    ShelivedinBoston,SanFrancisco,SeattleandLosAngeles.WhenshelivedinSan
    Francisco,sheusedtovisitaplacecalledChinatownmostofthetime.Chinatownhadthesecond
    largestChineseconcentrationintheworldthefirstonebeingChinaitself.Shealsoused
    Chinatownasthesettinginmanyofherbooks.

    Shestartedtowriteunderthepseudonym
    SuiSinFar
    (waterlilyinCantonese).Shealso
    adoptedanAsianAmericanidentity.ShewantedtopublishMrs.SpringFragrance,abookthat
    consistedofmanyshortstories(includingPatandPan)aboutChinesepeopleinAmerica,in
    1912.Butitwasnotpublished.Shediedin1914.

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    Edithhadayoungersister,Winnifred,whowasalsoawriter.Winnifredwroteunderthe
    JapanesepseudonymOnotoWatanna.HerliteraryworksweremorefamousthanthatofEdith.

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