Sisterly Love

Marie A. Conn is a professor of religious studies at Chestnut Hill College. She is the author of Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, 13th to 18th Centuries (2000) and C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light among the Shadows (2008). She is the co-editor of four books of essays with Thérèse McGuire published by University Press of America.Thérèse McGuire, SSJ, is a professor emerita of art at Chestnut Hill College. She is an expert on Saint Hildegard of Bingen giving many talks in the United States and abroad about the woman’s life and her work.

• DedicationForewordWhat is SEPCHE?IntroductionChapter 1: Anna Johanna Piesch Seidel, Influential MoravianCatherine Looker, SSJChapter 2: Fanny Kemble, British Stage Actress: Philadelphia AbolitionistBernadette Balcer and Fran PelhamChapter 3: Assisium McEvoy, SSJ, Education PioneerMary Helen Kashuba, SSJChapter 4: Anna M. Ross, Civil War NurseJanice ShowlerChapter 5: Agnes Repplier, EssayistMarie Hubert Kealy, IHMChapter 6: The Drexel Women, Educators and PhilanthropistsStephanie MorrisChapter 7: Anna Kugler, MD, Medical Missionary to IndiaKaren GetzenChapter 8: Cecilia Beaux, ArtistSuzanne ConwayChapter 9: Violet Oakley, ArtistDavid R. ContostaChapter 10: Ida Tarbell, Journalist, MuckrakerMarie ConnChapter 11: Mary Brooks Picken, Fashion Designer, Teacher, Pioneer in Distance LearningKathryn West and Patrick McCauleyChapter 12: Gertrude Hawk, Candy EntrepreneurMary Ellen O’DonnellChapter 13: Rachel Carson, EnvironmentalistDavid R. ContostaChapter 14: Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Computer PioneerLisa Olivieri, SSJ and Merilyn Ryan, SSJChapter 15: Adrian Barrett, IHM, Champion of the PoorNancy DeCesare, IHMChapter 16: Judee von Seldeneck, Diversity Hiring ExpertNancy PorterChapter 17: Joan Dawson McConnon, Co-Founder, Project H.O.M.E.Geralyn ArangoAbout the Contributors

The volume . . . includes stimulating discussions of twentieth-century entrepreneurs and pioneers in fields where women were rarely found. . . .This volume could be used in the classroom as a model for student biographical explorations. . . .It is a welcome addition to that small bookshelf of biographical collections on Pennsylvania women.