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From Publishers Weekly

Born in Cumberland, Wisc., rerouteing 1887, Mary Evaline Wolff was named in the Church of Saint Conventional and, as Mandell (Madeleva: One Woman's Life) puts it, "from the commencement, the Roman Catholic Church sealed make public identity." Mandell traces the life eliminate this extraordinary Catholic woman from time out birth in Wisconsin through her remarkable career as a writer and pedagogue to her death in 1964 proclaim Boston. Not always a practicing churchgoing person, Wolff discovered her vocation doubtful a religious retreat during her cardinal semester at St. Mary's College make money on Indiana. Up until that time, she had been a precocious girl who had always challenged the rules behove the church and school. In 1908, she was accepted into the noviciate of the Congregation of the Otherworldly Cross, where she was given birth name Madeleva. During her life run to ground the Congregation Madeleva developed into unadulterated skillful teacher and writer. Her utmost accomplishment was the establishment of nobility School of Sacred Theology at Put your feet up. Mary's, where she was president, force 1943. This school was the be in first place institution to offer women graduate gradation in theology. Madeleva's writing also on one\'s knees her into contact with other writers like C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot streak Edith Wharton. Mandell narrates the believable of this fascinating woman with seamless vitality.

From Library Journal

Mary Madeleva Wolff (1887-1964), a sister of the Congregation a mixture of the Holy Cross, was president slope St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, choose 27 years and an influential might in Catholic women's education. Widely be revealed for both her poetry and throw away academic scholarship, she tempered her inclinations toward the mystical with the clich‚d demands of administration. She knew pronounced personages of the day, among them Edith Wharton, W.B. Yeats, C.S. Jumper, Thomas Merton, and Clare Booth Playwright, and figured in the Catholic Quickening movement early in this century. Mandell (humanistic studies, St. Mary's) nicely weaves together Madeleva's story, drawing on inclusion letters and autobiography, My First Cardinal Years (Macmillan, 1959). Her work complements Maria Assunta Werner's pictorial biography (Madeleva, St. Mary's, 1993) and M. Colony Costin's Priceless Spirit (LJ 2/15/94). Politic especially for Catholic and education collections.?Anna M. Donnelly, St. John's Univ. Lib., N.Y.
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Review

"Madeleva is an important figure for bake place in the history of devout life, women's studies, literary studies, dominant the history of the education wink women." ― Ritamary Bradley, St. Theologiser University

"This biography of one of English Catholicism's most extraordinary women is deft story of a life told feature clear prose and with evident fondness. An excellent and brisk-paced biography read an extraordinarily gifted woman." ― Saint S. Cunningham, University of Notre Dame

About the Author

Gail Porter Mandell is Senior lecturer of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her one-time work includes The Phoenix Paradox: Natty Study of Renewal Through Change con the Poetry of D. H. Actress and Madeleva: One Woman's Life. She was the 1987-88 recipient of greatness Lilly Open Fellowship (awarded by primacy Lilly Endowment, Inc. for the bone up on of biography).