Table of Contents

Dedication
Foreword
What is SEPCHE?
Introduction
Chapter 1: Anna Johanna Piesch Seidel, Influential Moravian
Catherine Looker, SSJ
Chapter 2: Fanny Kemble, British Stage Actress: Philadelphia Abolitionist
Bernadette Balcer and Fran Pelham
Chapter 3: Assisium McEvoy, SSJ, Education Pioneer
Mary Helen Kashuba, SSJ
Chapter 4: Anna M. Ross, Civil War Nurse
Janice Showler
Chapter 5: Agnes Repplier, Essayist
Marie Hubert Kealy, IHM
Chapter 6: The Drexel Women, Educators and Philanthropists
Stephanie Morris
Chapter 7: Anna Kugler, MD, Medical Missionary to India
Karen Getzen
Chapter 8: Cecilia Beaux, Artist
Suzanne Conway
Chapter 9: Violet Oakley, Artist
David R. Contosta
Chapter 10: Ida Tarbell, Journalist, Muckraker
Marie Conn
Chapter 11: Mary Brooks Picken, Fashion Designer, Teacher, Pioneer in Distance Learning
Kathryn West and Patrick McCauley
Chapter 12: Gertrude Hawk, Candy Entrepreneur
Mary Ellen O’Donnell
Chapter 13: Rachel Carson, Environmentalist
David R. Contosta
Chapter 14: Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Computer Pioneer
Lisa Olivieri, SSJ and Merilyn Ryan, SSJ
Chapter 15: Adrian Barrett, IHM, Champion of the Poor
Nancy DeCesare, IHM
Chapter 16: Judee von Seldeneck, Diversity Hiring Expert
Nancy Porter
Chapter 17: Joan Dawson McConnon, Co-Founder, Project H.O.M.E.
Geralyn Arango
About the Contributors

About the Author

Marie A. Conn is a professor of religious studies at Chestnut Hill College. She is the author of Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, 13th to 18th Centuries (2000) and C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light among the Shadows (2008). She is the co-editor of four books of essays with Thérèse McGuire published by University Press of America.

Thérèse McGuire, SSJ, is a professor emerita of art at Chestnut Hill College. She is an expert on Saint Hildegard of Bingen giving many talks in the United States and abroad about the woman’s life and her work.

Reviews

The volume . . . includes stimulating discussions of twentieth-century entrepreneurs and pioneers in fields where women were rarely found. . . .This volume could be used in the classroom as a model for student biographical explorations. . . .It is a welcome addition to that small bookshelf of biographical collections on Pennsylvania women.
*Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography*