Jacks, L. V. Mother Marianne of Molokai. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. First Edition. [10197]
Blue cloth, sunned at spine & edges, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, no dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait, xvi., 203 clean pp., tight. Short edge nibble to rear board. Good. Hardcover.
The inspiring life of Mother Marianne, born Barbara Kopp (1836-1918), b. Heppenheim, Hess Darmstadt; d. Hawaii. Her family emigrated to Utica, N.Y., in 1839 and in 1862 she entered the Sisters of St. Francis in Syracuse, N.Y. She intended to take up a career of teaching, but was given administrative tasks, and participated in the establishment of two hospitals in the central New York area. In 1870 she was nurse-administrator at St Joseph's hospital, and by 1883 was the Provincial Mother in Syracuse.
She received a letter asking for help with missionary and medical matters at Honolulu, and sailed with six sisters to Hawaii to establish and manage hospitals and schools on the islands. Her service to lepers and to the poor is memorialized in this book. It includes a chapter on Robert Louis Stevenson's visit in May, 1889.
