[Miss Smith, London Mission School, Peking, China]

Georgina Smith ran the London Mission’s girls’ boarding school inside the embassy quarter. Her success sheltering Chinese Christian refugees there earned her fame in the West. Mark Twain and other pundits loudly criticized the wholesale looting of Chinese art and treasure after the rebellion, singling Smith out for organizing weekly auctions of looted Qing nobles’ property. Ricalton remembered the “greatest loot-marts in the city” on the “last two miles” of Ketteler Street.