Reclaiming Religious Roots and Women’s Agency

Anne M. Boylan, The Origins of Women’s Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 212.

Jane Addams , "The College Woman and the Family Claim," Commons 29 (September 1898): 2, 7.

Maureen Fitzgerald , Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s Welfare System, 1830-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 3.

Ibid., 8.