Product Description: Breaking new ground in presenting the life of Catherine McAuley (1778?-1841), the Dublin woman who founded the Sisters of Mercy, Mary C. Sullivan has written the first full-length, documented narrative of McAuley in more than fifty years...read more

Product Description: Catherine McAuley (1778-1841) founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin in 1831. Her letters are essential primary sources for readers interested in the life and works of this remarkable Irish churchwoman and in women's history and Irish church history more broadly...read more

Product Description: Catherine McAuley was born into a wealthy Dublin family in 1778. By the time she had reached adulthood, she had witnessed the death of both parents, and experienced considerable religious uncertainty and turmoil.Driven by a deep faith and pragmatic sense of charity, she opened, in 1827, an institution for unemployed and underprivileged women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action—a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated is that Nightingale was deeply engaged in the religious and philosophical thought of her time and that the primary aim of her life was not to reform social institutions but to serve God...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)