(Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, for Rhodes University, 1989). Graham's Town Series, number 10. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, with gilt device to upper cover, and spine lettered in gilt; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. x + 341, incl. index; some photographs and a facsimile. Fine condition. "The Reminiscences of Amelia de Henningsen relate the most important incidents in the life-story of a most remarkable woman, known far and wide in South Africa during the second half of the 19th century as 'Notre Mère'. She came to South Africa in 1849 as the leader of a band of pioneer Sisters, the first ever to establish convent schools in southern Africa. With persevering endurance she lived through the poverty, the struggles and the disappointments encountered in laying the foundations of schools which were intended to inculcate basic Christian principles and Gospel values. With indomitable courage and unfailing energy she endured the hardships and dangers of the frontier war of 1850/1853, and responded to the needs of the people, especially of the homeless orphans, the sick and the poor." .

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Bookseller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 11834
Title: The Reminiscences of Amelia de Henningsen (Notre Mère)
Author: Young, Margaret (editor)
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, for Rhodes University, 1989)
Keywords: Amelia de Henningsen. Belgian nuns. Memoirs. Letters. Frontier Wars. Missionaries. Eastern Cape. Albany District. Eastern Cape
Bookseller catalogs: Eastern Cape;

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