Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate.
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Irish Sisters of Mercy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | She had become seriously interested in Secularism in 1857. Now, after attending the Congress for the Advancement of Social Science in Dublin in 1861, she became interested in the work of the Irish Sisters of Mercy |
| Cultural formation | Adelaide Procter | Two, and perhaps all three, of her sisters later converted to Roman Catholicism as well, and one joined the Irish Sisters of Mercy
. Parkes claimed that AP
never spoke of her conversion. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “In a Walled Garden, 1895”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project. 162, 165 |
| Occupation | Florence Nightingale | FN
was not, contrary to her official title, in charge of all the nurses in the area. The Irish Sisters of Mercy
, for instance, worked independently of FN
's influence at Koulali Hospital
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | This work features two founders of religious Orders in Ireland—Mary Aikenhead
of the Sisters of Charity
and Catherine McAuley
of the Mercy Sisters
—as well as Elizabeth Ann Seton
of the USA. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
By mid-April 1856: Frances Margaret Taylor published as a Lady...
Women writers item
By mid-April 1856
Frances Margaret Taylor
published as a Lady VolunteerEastern Hospitals and English Nurses: the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...
Building item
24 October 1868
With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton
, novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor
established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
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