In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell
...publication, Women’s Progress. Together the journal and the correspondence open a window into these important Catholic activists. The Campbell family were booksellers based in Germantown and largely involved in the intellectual life of Philadelphia. Jane and Marianne’s father was active in the labor movement and their brothers were founding members
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...y convent while St. Elizabeth Motherhouse was being built. When the school opened as Holy Providence a year later in 1892, it had grown from one student to over a hundred. Holy Providence would also serve as an orphanage for both boys and girls and would remain in operation until
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...untries, Ireland, and the far East, it would cause odious distinctions and open the gate to a thousand furhter [sic] demands that we are unable to answer.” Letter from Heuser. Postscript reads: "P.S. the MS is being returned by this post under other cover." However, a subsequent letter reveals that
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