CUSACK, M.F. Woman’s Work in Modern Society.

Kenmare: Kenmare Publications, 1875. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. xii, 373, [1], 6 (Publisher’s List). Green cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Some mild spotting to prelims and fore-edge. Presentation inscription and neat library stamp ‘Convent Poor Servants of the Mother of God’ on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €265
JISC with 5 locations only.
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.

[Cat 161]