African Women.

London, Faber & Faber, 1939, 1939. 1st Edition. 567 pages. Original black cloth covers in a very good but slightly chipped and scarce dust jacket. Slight fade to spine. Contents fine. Frontis and black and white ills. Sylvia Leith-Ross was appointed as "Lady Superintendent of Education" in 1925. She helped to establish Queen's College, Lagos, a girls' boarding school, and founded a girls' school in Kano. In 1931 she was sent back to England to recover her health. When she returned again, she used a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to conduct anthropological studies among the women of eastern Nigeria, following the Women's War; this work resulted in the book African Women: A Study of the Ibo of Nigeria (1939).