Title: Henriette Delille
Description: A fictionalized account of the life of Henriette DeLille, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in nineteenth-century New Orleans to help people of lesser fortunes and to educate slaves, and depicts DeLille from a ten-year-old girl until her health begins to deteriorate in concurrence with the Civil War, but DeLille is determined to continue her efforts.
Subjects: Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.), Juvenile literature, Biography, History, Nuns, Nuns, juvenile literature, Louisiana, juvenile literature, New orleans (la.), Saints, Saints, juvenile literature, Juvenile fiction
People: Henriette Delille (1812-1862)