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Maria McClellands pioneering study, drawing on a wide range of archival material scattered across the British Isles, focuses on one of the earliest English manifestations of the educational enterprise of the Sisters of Mercy, in Hull. Her research demonstrates how, despite adverse circumstances, financial hardship and a spectacular and scandalous’ court case that hit the headlines in the late 1860s, the Sisters achieved their aims and met with eventual success. The story that unfolds presents, in microcosm, a clear and valuable picture of the challenges and opportunities facing Catholic religious women in Victorian and early twentieth-century England. Maurice Whitehead
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