1st Edition
Highly Respectable and Accomplished Ladies Catholic Women Religious in America, 1790-1850
By Barbara Misner
Copyright 1988
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1988. This study examines women religious in the American community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The primary aim of this research was to determine who the women were who entered eight religious communities, and whether there was any clear relationship between who they were and their choice of community. This title will be of interest to students of history... Read more
Preface; Introduction; 1. New Institutions for a New Nation 2. These New Sisterhoods – Catholic and American 3. Who Were These Interesting Individuals? 4. Education: 1799-1850 5 . "Charitable Exercises"; Conclusions; Appendices
Biography
Barbara Misner
