ELIZABETH SETON AND HER LEGACY

A Bibliography of Published Works Located in

Special Collections The Elizabeth Seton Library

College of Mount Saint Vincent Riverdale, New York

Compiled by Dr. Edward O’Hara, Library Director

in cooperation with Sr. Rita King, Archivist, Sisters of Charity of New York

August 2004

THE WRITINGS OF ELIZABETH SETON

Seton, Elizabeth. Collected Writings. Edited by Regina Bechtle and Judith Metz. 3 vols. anticipated. Hyde Park: New City Press, 2000--. _____________. Elizabeth Seton: Selected Writings. Edited by Ellin Kelly and Annabelle Melville. New York: Paulist Press, 1987. _____________. Elizabeth Seton’s Two Bibles: Her Notes and Markings. Compiled and edited by Ellin M. Kelly. Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1977. _____________. Letters of Mother Seton to Mrs. Julianna Scott. 2d ed. Edited by Joseph B. Code. New York: Father Salvator M. Burgio Memorial Foundation in Honor of Mother Seton, 1960. _____________. Memoir, Letters and Journal of Elizabeth Seton: Convert to the Catholic Faith, and Sister of Charity. Edited by Robert Seton. New York: P. O’Shea, 1869. ______________. The Soul of Elizabeth Seton: A Spiritual Autobiography Culled From Mother Seton’s Writings and Memoirs by a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, St.. Joseph’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. New York: Benziger, 1936 .

SETONIAN CONGREGATIONS IN HISTORY AND TODAY

General Works

Anthony, Geraldine. A Vision of Service: Celebrating the Federation of Sisters and Daughters of Charity. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward, 1997. Barton, George. Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War. Philadelphia: Catholic Art Publishing Co., 1898. [Includes significant material on the Sisters of Charity] Jarvis, William. Mother Seton’s Sisters of Charity. Thesis. New York: Columbia University, 1984. Jolly, Ellen Ryan. Nuns of the Battlefield. 4th edition. Providence: Providence Visitor Press, 1930. [Includes chapters on the congregations In Nazareth, New York, Cincinnati, and Emmitsburg] Kelly, Ellen. Numerous Choirs: A Chronicle of Elizabeth Bayley Seton and Her Spiritual Daughters. 2 vols. Evansville, Ind.: Mater Dei Provincialate, 1981-1996. Nelson, Sioban. Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [Includes chapter on Sisters of Charity.] Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Emmitsburg, Md.: Saint Joseph’s College, 1927. [Includes chapters on the American Sisters of Charity]. Stewart, George. Marvels of Charity: History of American Sisters and Nuns. Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1994. Weiden, Robert Charles. Mother Seton and Her Daughters of Charity. Thesis. Brooklyn, N.Y., St. John’s College, 1941.

Emmitsburg and the Daughters of Charity Kauffman, Christopher J. Ministry and Meaning: A Religious History of Catholic Health Care in the United States. New York: Crossroad, 1995. [Includes chapter on Sisters/Daughters of Charity.] Yeakel, Mary Agnes. The Nineteenth Century Educational Contribution of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. Sisters of Charity of New York A.M.M.G. Life of Mother Elizabeth Boyle: One of Mother Seton’s First Companions, the Assistant Mother under Her for Eight Years, and First Superioress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, in New York City. New York: Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, 1893. Courtney, Anne. Pioneer Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of New York. New York: Sisters of Charity Archives, 1998. [Looseleaf] Earley, Mary Elizabeth. The Sisters of Charity of New York, 1960-1996. 2 vols. Bronx, N.Y.: Sisters of Charity of New York Press, 1997. Meenahan, Agnes Josephine. A Brief History of the Pioneer Work of the Sisters of Charity. Thesis. Brooklyn, N.Y., St. John’s University, 1946. Stuart, George. A History of St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City. Privately printed, 1938. Walsh, Marie de Lourdes. Mother Elizabeth Boyle: Mother of Charity. New York: Paulist Press, 1955. ____________________. The Sisters of Charity of New York, 1809-1959. 3 vols. New York: Fordham University Press, 1960. ____________________. With a Great Heart: The Story of St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center. New York: St. Vincent’s Hospital, 1965.

Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Boyle, Mary Electa. Mother Seton’s Sisters of Charity in Western Pennsylvania. Greensburg, 1946. Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth McEniry, Blanche Maria. Woman of Decision: The Life of Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent, New Jersey. New York: McMullen Books, 1953. Pendergast, Mary Carita. Havoc in Hunan: The Sisters of Charity in Western Hunan,

1924-1951. Morristown, N.J.: College of Saint Elizabeth Press, 1991. Sharkey, Mary Agnes. The New Jersey Sisters of Charity. 3 vols. New York: Longmans, Green, 1933. Sisters of Charity of Halifax 150 Years of Service: Sisters of Charity-Halifax. Halifax, N.S.: Sisters of Charity- Halifax, 1999. Anthony, Geraldine. Rebel, Reformer, Religious Extraordinaire: The Life of Sister Irene Farmer. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1997. McKenna, Mary Olga. Charity Alive: Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Halifax, 1950-1980. Lanham, Md.: University Press, 1998. [Power], Maura, Sr. The Sisters of Charity, Halifax. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1956. Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Fox, Columba. The Life of the Right Reverend John Baptist Mary David (1761-1841) Bishop of Bardstown and Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. New York: United States Catholic Historical Society, 1925. Kelley, Patricia. Fifty Monsoons: Ministry of Change Through Women of India. Louisville: Harmony House Publishers, 1999. McGill, Anna Blanche. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky. New York: Encyclopedia Press, 1917.

Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Gilmore, Julia. Come North: The Life-Story of Mother Xavier Ross, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. New York: McMullen Books, 1951. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Kimball, Clark, and Marcus J. Smith. The Hospital at the End of the Santa Fe Trail: A Photographic History of St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1977. McCann, Mary Agnes. The History of Mother Seton’s Daughters: The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio. 3 vols. New York: Longmans, Green, 1917-23. Metz, Judith and Virginia Wiltse. Sister Margaret Cecilia George: A Biography. Mount St. Joseph, Oh.: Sisters of Charity, 1989. __________________________. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati: The Early Years. Cincinnati: Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, 2003. Segale, Blandina. At the End of the Santa Fe Trail. Cincinnati: Sisters of Charity Of Cincinnati, 1996.

FICTIONAL WORKS

Eaton, Evelyn Sybil Mary and Edward Roberts Moore. Heart in Pilgrimage. New York: Harper, 1948. Heidish, Marcy. Miracles: a Novel about Mother Seton, the First American Saint. New York: New American Library, 1984. Seramur, Clare Simone. Courageous Calling: A Biographical Novel. New York: Vantage Press, 1961. Van Sweringen, Sigrid. As the Morning Rising: A Novel. New York: Benziger, 1936. __________________. White Noon: A Novel. New York: Benziger, 1939.

JUVENILE WORKS

Callahan, Mary Louise. Little Birds and Lilies. Emmitsburg: Mother Seton Guild Press, 1955. Glass, Fides. The Seton Ballad: a True Story in Verse and Pictures of Mother Elizabeth Seton. Greensburg, Pa.: Mother Seton Guild, Seton Hill Unit, 1944. Grunwell, Jeanne Marie. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: Daughter of America. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 1999. Heagney, Anne. The Spaldings of Old Kentucky. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co.,

1964. [Biography of Catherine Spalding, founder of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth]

Johnson, Jan. Mother Seton Starts a School: a Story about Elizabeth Seton. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1977. Lovasik Lawrence G. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. New York: Catholic Book Publishing, 1981. Wiley, Janet S. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Wife, Mother, Sister, Saint. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1977.

DEVOTIONAL WORKS

Alderman, Margaret and Josephine Burns. Praying with Elizabeth Seton. Winona, Minn.: Saint Mary’s Press, 1992. Bechtle, Regina, and Sung-Hae Kim. The Spirituality of St. Elizabeth Seton From An East-West Perspective [in English and Korean]. Seoul: 2001. Cushing, Richard. Blessed Mother Seton. Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1969. McNeil, Betty Ann. 15 Days of Prayer with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Publications, 2002. Metz, Judith. A Retreat with Elizabeth Seton: Meeting Our Grace. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1999. Seton, Elizabeth Ann. A Daily Thought from the Writings of Mother Seton. Selected by Rev. Joseph B. Code. Emmitsburg: Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, 1929. _________________. Daily Thoughts of Mother Seton. Selected by Rev. Joseph B. Code. Baltimore: Chandler Printing Co, 1960. Sister of Charity. Mother Seton’s Favorite Devotions. New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1940. Zagano, Phyllis. “Ellizabeth Bayley Seton.” In her Woman to Woman: An Anthology Of Women’s Spiritualities. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1993.

BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS

Bailly de Barberey, HeleneRoederer. Elizabeth Seton et les Commencements de l’Eglise Catholique aux Etats-Unis. [1st ed.] Paris: Poussielgue, 1868. _____________________________. Elizabeth Seton et les Commencement de l’Eglise Catholique aux Etats-Unis. 4th ed. Paris: Poussielgue, 1880. _____________________________. Elizabeth Seton. Translated from the sixth French edition. New York: Macmillan, 1927. Burke, Thomas A. Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton and Our Religious Life. New York: Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson, 1962. Burton, Katherine. His Dear Persuasion: the Life of Elizabeth Ann Seton. London: Longmans, Green, 1940. Code, Joseph B. Mother Seton and Her Sisters of Charity. Emmitsburg: Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, 1930. [Cuzzolina], Marie Celeste. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a Self Portrait (1774-1821): a Study of Her Spirituality in Her Own Words. Liberty, Ill.: Franciscan Marytown Press, 1985. Daughters of St. Paul. Mother Seton: Wife, Mother, Educator, Foundress, Saint: Profile by the Daughters of St. Paul, Based on “Elizabeth Seton” by Msgr. Joseph Bardi. Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1978. Dirvin, Joseph I. Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton. New York: 1963. [Pamphlet condensed from his book, Mrs. Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity…1962] _____________. Beata Madre Elizabeth Seton Fondatrice delle Suore Americano della Carita. Rome: Mariatti, 1963. [Originally published in English as: Mrs. Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity] _____________. Mrs. Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1962. _____________. Mrs. Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity. New canonization edition. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1975. _____________. The Soul of Elizabeth Seton. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990.

Feeney, Leonard. Elizabeth Seton, an American Woman, Her Story. New York: American Press, 1938. _____________. Mother Seton: Saint Elizabeth of New York (1774-1821). Cambridge, Mass.: Ravensgate Press, 1995, c1947. Fugazy, Mary Irene. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Strausbourg: Editions di Signe, 1997. Fuller, Mary. Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton, Sister of Charity. Mount Saint Vincent on Hudson, N.Y.: Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity, 1968. ___________. Joy to Her Soul: the Devotional Life of Blessed Elizabeth Seton. New York: Sisters of Charity, Mount St. Vincent-on-Hudson, 1963. Giacalone, Gail Madelyn. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Experience with Loss and Bereavement and Its Applicability for Bereavement Work. Thesis: New York: New York New York University, 1987. Hoare, Mary Regis. Virgin Soil, Mother Seton from a Different Point of View. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1942. Laverty, Rose Maria. Loom of Many Threads: the English and French Influences on the Character of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. New York: Paulist Press, 1958. Marie Celeste, Sr. The Intimate Friendships of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. New York: Alba House, 1989. McCann, Mary Agnes. Mother Seton, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity. Slightly Revised edition. Mount St. Joseph-on-the-Ohio: Sisters of Charity, 1911. Melville, Annabelle M. Elizabeth Bayley Seton, 1774-1821. New York: Scribner, 1951. Poinsenet, Maria Dominique. Je Ne Cherche Que Dieu et Son Eglise: Elizabeth Seton. Paris: Editions Saint-Paul, 1967. Power-Waters, Alma. Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity. New York: Vision Books, 1957. Sadlier, Agnes. Elizabeth Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity, Her Life and Work New York: Sadlier, 1905. ____________. Elizabeth Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity, Her Life and Work. Philadelphia: Kilner, 1905. Seton, Robert. An Old Family: or, the Setons of Scotland and America. New York: Brentano’s, 1899.

Sisters of Charity of Ohio. Mother Seton, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity. Mount St. Joseph-on-the-Ohio, 1909. Walters, Julie. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Saint for a New Nation. New York: Paulist Press, 2002. White, Charles Ignatius. Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton, Foundress and First Superior of the Sisters or Daughters of Charity in the United States of America. 3rd ed. New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1898. ___________________. Mother Seton, Mother of Many Daughters. Revised edition. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949 [First published in 1853 under title: Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton]