Martha Jane Riggs and Elias Riggs in Istanbul, c1864, from the collection of their great granddaughter, Helen Sarah Riggs Rice, from Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960, ed. Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Connie A Shemo
Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs, a missionary wife who spent time initially in Greece, and then mostly in the Ottoman Empire between 1832 and 1887, and wrote a book called Letters to Mothers, an early manuel on childhood instruction, is the fascinating topic of a thesis by Melisa Korkmaz. Her name does not apparently appear in any official missionay archive. In this photograph, she is seen with her husband Elias Riggs. It comes from Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960