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Main Title: Ursula Frayne : a biography / Catherine Kovesi Killerby. Book Cover
Author: Killerby, Catherine Kovesi, 1963-
Imprint: South Fremantle, W.A. : University of Notre Dame Australia, 1996.
Collation: 320 p. : ill. (some col.), portraits, facsims, maps, notes, bib., index, pbk ; 22 cm.
Subject: Frayne, Ursula, 1817-1885.
Sisters of Mercy
Catholic Church
Nuns
Biography
ISBN: 1863681760
Notes:
Ursula Frayne, a great educationalist, founded no order and may or may not have been a saint . . . She travelled 55,000 miles, and brought education to Newfoundland and Australia. She worked to better the situation of Aborigines, of immigrant Irish orphan girls, of the poor, the uneducated and the needy. She wrote to Queen Victoria, met Florence Nightingale, Pope Pius IX and the Earl of Shrewsbury, and tried to meet Ned Kelly, who tried to meet her.
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Non-Fiction Main Library 282 MER FRA Available