Letters on the go
Subtitle: the correspondence of Suzanne Aubert
By: edited & translated by Jessie Munro ; with the assistance of Sister Bernadette Wrack.
Contributors: Munro, Jessie.
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9781877242410
Subjects: Aubert, Suzanne, -- 1835-1926 -- Correspondence; Missionaries -- New Zealand -- Biography; Nuns -- New Zealand -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence
Description: "The letters begin in Auckland, where the dedicated young French missionary first settled, working with Maori students, meeting her fellow countrywoman Marie Louise Outhwaite, beginning her lifetime's negotiation with bishops and clergy and her association with the Society of Mary. After her departure for Hawke's Bay, her correspondence with Auckland friends sustains her, and her skills in nursing emerge ever more clearly. The remote Whanganui River settlement of Hiruharama is the setting for her next series of letters, written as she set up a farm, set up an orphanage, and work closely with Maori. Politics both national and clerical periodically threaten, and letters to priests, bishops, health inspectors and members of parliament intersperse her day-to-day correspondence with the sisters."--Book flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.