Voices from an early American convent : Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760 / edited by Emily Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hachard, Marie-Madeleine, -1760.

Contributor:

Clark, Emily, 1954-

Standardized Title:

Relation du voyage des dames religieuses Ursulines de Rouen à la Nouvelle-Orléans. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Hachard, Marie-Madeleine, -1760--Correspondence.

Hachard, Marie-Madeleine.

Hachard, Marie-Madeleine, -1760.

Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.)--Biography.

Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.).

Ursulines--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Ursulines.

History.

New Orleans (La.)--Church history.

New Orleans (La.).

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

ix, 138 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

This unique and remarkable title consists of letters and obituaries written by Ursuline nuns living in eighteenth-century New Orleans. These Catholic nuns traveled to New Orleans from France as missionaries in 1727 and established the first convent and girls' school in the territory that would later become the United States. Their writings describe the hardships associated with an eighteenth century Atlantic voyage, the public and private ambitions of early American women, and the relationships between early colonists of different ethnic backgrounds from a rare, first-hand, feminine perspective.

Contents:

Letters of Marie Madeleine Hachard

Obituary letters

Procession account.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807132371

0807132373

OCLC:

71842615