Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...outh, social activist and entertainment mogul. Redpath had sold his Lyceum booking agency several years earlier and was recuperating from an accident. He proposed to The New York Tribune that they send him to Ireland where he could regain his health while reporting on social conditions in that country. Though
The Church and Labor
...e dignity of labor. However, he cautioned against viewing the economy as a class struggle and against the creation of a “leviathan state” that would lead to the “individual and family’s “absorption by the state.”[11] Since Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum, the Catholic Church has placed a special focus on the
Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists
...many articles. The periodical, according to its editor, was to “be a high class monthly magazine devoted to the best interests of Women. It is the intention of the editor,” the first issue’s editorial announcement notes,” to keep women informed of the various opportunities that are open to them; of
Eden Hall
...d to the Society of the Sacred Heart and their academy: Eden Hall. Science class at Eden Hall It would be impossible to talk about Eden Hall without briefly mentioning Saint Madeline Sophie Barat. Born in the French town of Joigny in 1779, Madeline was taught by her brother Louis,