My grandaunt Margaret Stuart Dunscombe (Sister Mary Michael,1886-1973) was an Anglican nun and spent time in the Philippines during the World War II era, including time as a prisoner of the Japanese. She wrote an unpublished novel centered in southeast Asia including illustrations, which are shown here.
Visit Margaret by clicking on the white arrow next to her photo below. Click on the squares next to the arrows to cycle through enlarged versions of Margaret's illustrations.
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 1. CAPTION READS "A LONG LINE OF NIPA HOUSES."
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 2. CAPTION READS "OUR LADY PLACED ANOTHER WHITE SCORE AGAINST HER NAME"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 3. CAPTION READS "AN OLD MAN JOGGED PAST"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 4. CAPTION READS "IT WAS AN AMUSING TALE MI PADRE"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 5. CAPTION READS "THEY WERE MET BY THE FATHER SUPERIOR"
MANUSCRIPT NUMBER 6. CAPTION READS "HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SUPPOSE HE KNEW WHO I AM?"
ILUSTRATION NUMBER 7. CAPTION READS "A WHITE STRETCH ALONG THE BEACH"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 8. CAPTION READS "ASKED BUNGAYAD TO ACCOMPANY HER TO THE CHURCH FOR HER BAPTISM"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 9. CAPTION READS "A TINY BARRIO OF HIGH PEAKED HOUSES"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 10. CAPTION READS "A WOMAN WITH A BABY ON HER BACK WOULD LIGHT A CANDLE"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 11. CAPTION READS "UMALI-CA!"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 12. CAPTION READS "TOUCHED HER HAND WITH HIS LIPS"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 13. CAPTION READS "HOLDING HER BLANKET TOGETHER WITH ONE HAND"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 14. CAPTIONS READ "THE BULL LOWERED HIS HEAD" AND "BARNABAS"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 15. CAPTION READS "SILHOUTED AGAINST THE SKY"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 16. CAPTION READS "ON A MILKING STOOL NEAR THE ALTAR"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 17, CAPTION READS "AMIGO MIO HAD NOT BARGAINED TO DANCE TO THE DEVIL"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 18. CAPTION READS "ONE OF THE FAWNS, LYING ON HIS STOMACH"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 19. CAPTION READS "OUT OF THE HAIR APPEARED A HIGH BRIDGED NOSE AND EYES THAT WERE REMARKABLY KIND"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 20. CAPTION READS "THE BALUGANS WON OUT AND PUT UP A LITTLE GRASS CHURCH"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 21. CAPTION READS "UNDER THE RED LIGHT"
ILLUSTRATION NUMBER 22. CAPTION READS "A SMALL IGOROT, DRESSED IN A BRASS MEDAL"