CUSACK, M.F. The Story of My Life. With portrait from a photo by Elliott & Fry.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893. Third edition. Octavo. pp. xi, [1], 403, [2]. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce.
Margaret Anne Cusack (1832-1899) social activist, feminist, writer was born into an aristocratic background in Dublin. Also known as Sister Mary Francis Cusack and Mother Margaret, was first an Irish Anglican nun, then a Catholic nun, then a religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and then an Anglican (or possibly a Methodist). She became an Anglican nun in London, later (1858) converting to Catholicism. She joined the Poor Clares, taking the name Mary Francis, in Newry and afterwards spent some time working in the famine-stricken region of Kenmare, County Kerry where the fund she founded for the destitute peasantry raised £20,000.

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