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. Whether McAuley is writing to family members, bishops, her
solicitor, priests, lay coworkers, or Sisters of Mercy in Ireland
and England, her letters reveal striking details about the church
and society of her day as well as about her own spiritual
convictions and unstinting personal service to poor, sick,
homeless, or uneducated adults and children. The Correspondence of
Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841, is a new, fully documented edition of
more than 320 surviving letters written by, to, or about McAuley
during her lifetime. Drawn from archives worldwide and arranged
chronologically, the letters are carefully transcribed and
generously annotated, with brief narratives introducing each group.
In her letters as well as in those of the other correspondents, one
sees a delightfully human, affectionate woman; a compassionate,
persistent servant of the poor and neglected; an astute
businesswoman; and an unpretentious, humorous friend. This edition
of McAuley's correspondence is readily accessible to general
readers and demonstrates not only her important role in the
founding and amazing spread of the Mercy congregation in her
lifetime (now numbering more than 10,000 members globally), but
also her personal contributions to the pastoral development of the
church in Ireland and England. Scholars and other readers will gain
fresh insights into many prominent ecclesial leaders in the years
1828-1841, including Daniel Murray, archbishop of Dublin, and
Thomas Griffiths, vicar apostolic of the London District. They will
also find in these engaging letters one woman's grass-roots
experience of certain social, economic, and ecclesiastical
arrangements of her time and place. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Mary C.
Sullivan, R.S.M., is Professor Emeritus of Language and Literature,
and Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts, at the Rochester
Institute of Technology. She is the author of numerous works,
including Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy. PRAISE FOR
THE BOOK: ""All those letters whose whereabouts are known have
recently been tracked down, examined, verified and scrupulously
edited. The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841 is a
work of impeccable and exhaustive scholarship. . . . This book is a
very model of what such collections should be, and it could hardly
have had a better editor than Mary C. Sullivan, herself a Sister of
Mercy since 1950 and a distinguished academic for decades. . . .
This is not the first collection of Mother McAuley's letters, but
it is surely the most complete and meticulously edited.""--John W.
Donohue, America ""This monograph is a magnum opus. Edited by an
indefatigable scholar, it is the most complete, accurate compendium
of the correspondence of Catherine McAuley. . . . This expanded
treasure is, however, dwarfed by another uniquely Sullivan
contribution. Not only does each of the more than three hundred
entries reflect a precise rendition of documents, but Sullivan has
also supplemented each with meticulously researched clarifications
of the texts. This bonus provides new historical information and
identifies linguistic nuances that help the reader comprehend the
content and the context of Catherine's life and accomplishments. .
. . For its scholarly approach as well as for what it reveals about
the impact of one great Irish woman, and religious women in
general, Sullivan's latest monograph deserves our careful
study.""--Dolores Liptak, RSM, American Catholic Studies ""Mary C.
Sullivan RSM has carefully edited and thoroughly annotated these
letters. . . . Others besides Mercy sisters can be
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