Masterless mistresses : the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 /
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans and educated women and girls in literacy, numeracy and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less wel...
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Williamsburg, Va. : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
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