The case of Cornelia Connelly
by Juliana Wadham
Category: Trials

Life of the wife of a 19th-century Episcopal minister, who became a Catholic nun and the founder of a teaching order. Cornelia Connelly, née Cornelia Augusta Peacock, (born Jan. 15, 1809, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.--died April 18, 1879, St. Leonards, Sussex, Eng.), Roman Catholic abbess who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and became the subject of an acrimonious ecclesiastical controversy.