In this accomplished, innovative and extensively researched monograph, Ann Power charts the ‘struggles, hardship, courage, resourcefulness, tenacity and contribution’ of one of the less well-known congregations of Irish sisters, the Sisters of St Brigid, or the Brigidines, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (p. 18). The book, which is largely transnational in character, surveys the evolution of the congregation from its establishment in Tullow, Co. Carlow in 1807, to approximately the point at which it achieved official recognition from Rome in 1907. Throughout, Power examines a range of competing themes, among which include social entrepreneurship, canonical politics, educational philosophies and class, while simultaneously recreating immigrant communities and recounting a broad range of personal narratives. This multilocational, broadly chronological work is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it explores these themes through gendered, religious and migratory lenses.

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书评：1807–1922年在爱尔兰，美国，澳大利亚和新西兰的布雷迪丁姐妹

在这本富有成就，创新和广泛研究的专着中，Ann Power绘制了鲜为人知的爱尔兰姐妹会之一，圣布里吉德姐妹或布里吉丁人的“斗争，艰辛，勇气，机智，坚韧和贡献”，在19世纪和20世纪初（第18页）。这本书主要是跨国性质的书，从1807年在卡洛的图洛（Tullow）公司成立到1907年获得罗马官方认可的程度，概述了会众的演变。相互竞争的主题，其中包括社会企业家精神，规范政治，教育理念和阶级，同时重建了移民社区并叙述了广泛的个人叙事。这个多地点的