Light in the Queen's Garden : Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai'i's Daughters, 1862-1914 / Sandra E. Bonura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonura, Sandra E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Hawaii--Biography.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 75 b&w illustrations

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

At the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiaha'o Seminary, a boarding school for girls, she couldn't 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 Hawai'i. Light in the Queen's Garden offers for the first time a day-by-day accounting of the events surrounding the coup d'état as seen through the eyes of Pope's young students. Author Sandra Bonura uses recently discovered primary sources to help enliven the historical account of the 1893 Hawaiian Revolution that happened literally outside the school's windows. Queen Lili'uokalani's adopted daughter's long-lost oral history recording, many of Pope's teaching contemporaries' unpublished diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and photos tell a story that has never been told before.Towering royal personages in Hawai'i's history-King Kalākaua, Queen Lili'uokalani, Princess Ka'iulani and others-appear in the book, as Ida Pope sheltered Hawai'i's daughters through the frightening and turbulent end of their sovereign nation. Pope was present during the life celebrations of the king, and then his sad death rituals. She had the extraordinary opportunity to travel with Lili'uokalani on her controversial trip to Kalaupapa's "leper colony" to visit Saint Marianne Cope and afflicted pupils. In 1894, with the endorsement of Lili'uokalani and Charles Bishop, Pope helped to establish the Kamehameha School for Girls, funded by the estate of Princess Pauahi Bishop, and became its first principal. Inspired by John Dewey and others, she shaped and reshaped Kamehameha's curriculum through a process of conflict and compromise. Fired up by the era's doctrine of social and vocational relevance, she adapted the curriculum to prepare her students for entry into meaningful careers. Lili'uokalani's daughter, Lydia Aholo, was placed in the school and Pope played a significant role in mothering and shaping her future, especially during the years the queen was fighting to restore her kingdom.As Hawai'i moved into the twentieth century under a new flag, Pope tenaciously confronted the effects of industrialization, the growing concentration of outside economic power and worked tirelessly to attain social reforms to give Hawaiian women their rightful place in society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Ida's Heritage, 1862-1914

Chapter Two: The Extraordinary Nineteenth Century

Chapter Three: Kawaiaha'o Seminary: Acorn to Oak, 1865-1890

Chapter Four: Ida to the Kingdom, 1890-1892

Chapter Five: Miss Pope in Charge

Chapter Six: Pilikia

Chapter Seven: Off to Moloka'i with the Queen, 1892

Chapter Eight: Prayer and Politics: The Revolution of 1893

Chapter Nine: Endings: Kawaiaha'o Seminary, 1893-1894

Chapter Ten: Beginnings: The Kamehameha School for Girls, 1894-1897

Chapter Eleven: The Foundational Years

Chapter Twelve: Outside the School Gates: Pālama Settlement

Chapter Thirteen: The Turbulent Ending of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Fourteen: Up and Away in the New Century

Chapter Fifteen: A Dream Realized: The Ka'iulani Home

Chapter Sixteen: Taking Honolulu by Storm

Chapter Seventeen: The Changing Hawaiian Islands

Chapter Eighteen: Last Aloha to Mother Pope, 1914

Notes on Sources and Research

Individuals Mentioned in Letters and Reports

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824866471

0824866479

OCLC:

1007823189