29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Religious Orders
*The [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsor1999/csjb01.html Clewer Sisters] were Sisters from the Anglican Community of St John the Baptist from Clewer (near Windsor in England) who came to Calcutta in 1881. They were involved,at various times, with nursing at the Calcutta General Hospital,Medical College Hospital, and the Eden Hospital(a maternity hospital) and also with nurse training through the Calcutta Hospital Nurses Institution, which was based at the Lady Canning Home. Scroll to the end of this [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/ttcarter/life/05.html link]for brief details of their work in India. This [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/books/raj.html link] describes the book ''Sisters of the Raj'' by Valerie Bonham, (which is available at the British Library), [http://books.google.com/books?id=JkrFAAAACAAJ No Preview Google Books]
*''All Saints Sisters of the Poor: an Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century'' by Susan Mumm (published 2001) [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PR14 Limited View Google Books] indicates this order was in India from 1878. Available at the BL.
*''A History of Christianity (Volume VI) the Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia 1800-1914'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=ET8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA141 Limited View Google Books] indicates that the Wantage Sisters ([http://www.csmv.co.uk/WantageOverseas.htm Community of St Mary the Virgin],Wantage, Oxfordshire), an Anglican Order, were in [[Bombay]] and [[Poona]] from 1874.
''Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain'' by Susan Mumm (1999) [http://books.google.com/books?id=QY9qP8pC0uoC&pg=PA8 Limited View Google Books] gives more details about these three Orders. Available at the BL.
===Additional Books===
