Helen Waddell's Writings from Japan
Waddell, Helen / Burleigh, David The richest thing in my life has been Japan' wrote the Irish scholar Helen Waddell (1889-1965) when she was in her twenties. At the time she was still living in Belfast, and had not yet embarked on the medieval Latin scholarship which later made her famous. As a child of missionary parents, Waddell had not only been born in Japan, but had spent the important years of her childhood there. It was on this experience that she drew in her first att...