Autobiography of Sister Margaret of the Cross, 1887-1966 (inclusive) [microform].

Manuscript.

English

Sister Margaret, daughter of James Talbot, headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol, was born in 1887. She was educated at St. Andrews in Scotland, at a school at Priors Field, Godalming, and at Cambridge University. After a period of uncertainty, Sister Margaret became an Anglican nun. She taught at a school in South Africa for seven years and was later a novice mistress in India. In 1929, she went to the Solomon Islands as a teaching sister for the Melanesian Mission. In 1942, she transferred to the Melanesian Mission school at Torgil, Aoba Island, New Hebrides. After furlough in England in 1948, she became a member of the Roman Catholic Church's Sisters of Mercy, and served another term in the Solomon Islands. In 1966, at age 79, she went to live in New Zealand.

The autobiography is partially typescript and partially manuscript. It was written at the request of Sister Margaret's Superior, the Rev. Mother Mary Carmel.

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Autobiography of Sister Margaret of the Cross. Microfilm. Film Ms.83. Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library.

Autobiography of Sister Margaret of the Cross. Microfilm. Film Ms.83. Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library.

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