Works on founders are listed under the country/region of origin. General histories of international congregations under International, others under particular countries.
INTERNATIONAL
Bord, Mother Marie, Three centuries of life: Sisters of St Paul of Chartres (s.l.: Sisters of St Paul de Chartres, 1992)
Brejon de Lavergnée, Matthieu (editor), Des Filles de la Charité aux Sœurs de Saint-Vncent-de-Paul: quartre siècles de cornettes, XVIIe-XXe siècles (Paris : Champion, 2016).
Darricau, Raymond, Father Noailles and the Association of the Holy Family: the story of a charism (Chambray-lès-Tours : CLD, 1995).
der Veen, Annemiek van & Verhoeven, Dolly, We agreed to be different: Sisters of Charity of Our lady Mother of Mercy, 1960-2000 (Hilversum : Verloren, 2005).
Ligné, André, Sœurs Marianites de Sainte-Croix du Mans en France et dans le monde (Le Mans : ITF Éditeurs, 2007).
Molengraft, Alix van de, It all began with three beguines: history of ten thousand Sisters of Charity, 1832 to 1964 ([Preston: Nemco Press], 1992).
Paisant, Chantal (editor), La mission au féminin: témoignages de religieuses missionnaires au fil d’un siècle (XIXe-début XXe siècle) Turnhout : Brepols, 2009).
Pardilla, Ángel, Le religiose: ieri, oggi e domani (Roma : Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008).
Pazelli, Raffaele, Franciscan Sisters: outlines of history and spirituality (Steubenville OH: Franciscan UP, 1993).
Pelliccia, G. & Rocca, Giancarlo (editors), Dizionario degli istituti di perfezione, in 10 volumes (Roma : Paoline, 1974-2003).
Rafferty, Deirdre & Smyth, Elizabeth M., Education, identity and women religious, 1800-1950 (London : Routledge, 2016).
Rota, Olivier & Delmaire, Danielle (editors), Activités apostoliques et culturelles en Europe et au Levant : Notre-Dame de Sion, milieu XIXe siècle-milieu XXe siècle (Lille : Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3, 2009).
Soury-Lavergne, Françoise, Chemin d’éducation: sur les traces de Jeanne de Lestonnac (Chambray-lès-Tours : CLD, 1985).
Walter, M. Bernita, Sustained by God’s faithfulness. Vol. 1: Founding and early development of the Congregation (St Ottilien: EOS, 1987).
Veen, Annemiek van der and Dolly Verhoeven, We agreed to be different: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy 1960-2000 (2005).
White, Teresa, A vista of years: history of the Society of the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus, 1820-1993 (no place : Faithful Companions of Jesus, 2014).
AFRICA
Ballini, Maria Rosa, The Daughters of St Paul in Kenya 1976-2006 (Nairobi : Paulines Publications Africa, 2007)
Ballini, Maria Rosa, The Daughters of St Paul in Tanzania (Nairobi : Paulines Publications Africa, 2004)
Boehmer, Mary Clare, Echoes in our hearts (Red Bud, IL : Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 1994)
Bonner, Kathleen, Dominican women: a time to speak (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : Cluster, 2000)
Boardman, M. Denise, Go forward! Nothing now can check your course. An account of the Holy Family Sisters of Bordeaux in South Africa, Ugandaand Botswana, 1865-2010 (Johannesburg : Holy Family Sistersof Bordeaux in Africa, 2010).
Burke, Jane F., These Catholic Sisters are all mamas! Towards the inculturation of the sisterhood in Africa, an ethnographic study (Leiden : Brill, 2001)
Buschgerd, M. Annette, For a great proce: the story of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood (Reimlingen : Marianhill Missionary Press, 1990).
Fitzgerald, Elma & Lefebvre, Julienne, Go forth: a history of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, missionaries in Lesotho (Longueil, PQ : Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, 2002)
Gugglberger, Martina, Reguliertes Abenteuer: Missionarinnen in Südafrika nach 1945 (Wien : Böhlau, 2014).
Guillet, Lucette, Sœurs de la Charité Notre-Dame d’Évron en Afrique (Laval : Siloë, 2004}.
Kapinga wa Nkaya, Marguerite-Astrid, Les Sœurs de la Charité de Jésus et de Marie: un siècle de présence au Zaíre, 1892-1992 (Kinshasa : Sœurs de la Charité de JM, 1992)
Rogers, Rebecca, ‘Telling stories about the colonies : English and French women in Algeria in the 19th century’, Gender and History (2009), p. 39-59.
Sheldon, Kathleen, ‘”I studied with the nuns, learning to make blouses”: gender ideology and colonial education in Mozambique’, International Journal of African Historical Studies 31 (1998) 3, 595-626
Stornig, Katharina, Sisters crossing boundaries: German missionary nuns in colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960 (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013)
Wakahiu, Jane et al., Voices of courage: historical, socio-cultural and educational journeys of women religious in East and Central Africa (Nairobi : Paulines, 2015).
Walter, M. Bernita, Sustained by God’s faithfulness. Vol. 2: Proclaiming God’s faithfulness, preparing the way for the Church in East Africa (St Ottilien: EOS, 1992).
ASIA
Barrion, Candidad, The Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Philippines, 1906-1981 (Duluth: St Scholastica’s Priory, 1982).
Chi, Madeleine, Shanghai Sacred Heart: risk in faith, 1926-1952 (St Louis: The Author, 2001).
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra, Behind the walls: life of convent girls (Manila: Anvil, 2005).
Fabella, Virginia & Mulligan, Dorothy, Maryknoll Sisters in the Philippines (Quezon City : Maryknoll Sisters, 2001).
Gegen, Loretta, Born of courgage and gratitude: a story of the ministry of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Korea ([St Louis : RC Printing], no date).
Kinattingal, Sucy, Servant of God Mother Eliswa, the foundress of the TOCD (CTC & CMC) for women: the critical study of the history of foundation, 1866-1913 (Verapoly : Kerala Latin Historical Association, 2010).
Manion, Patricia Jean, Venture into the unknown: Loretto in China 1923-1998 (Manchester, Missouri : Independent Publishing Co, 2006)
Paul, Nilanjana, ‘The Indian mission of the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) nuns: convents, curriculum, and Indian women’, Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24:2 (2022).
Pilendran, Gnanamuthu (editor), Letters of the Holy Family missionaries from Jaffna, 1862-1886 (Colombo : Gnanamuthu Pilendran, 1999).
Sala, Ida, History of our Canossian missions. Vol. 1: Hong Kong, 1860-1910. Vol. 2: China, 1868-1952. Vol. 3: Hong Kong, 1910-2000 (Hong Kong : Canossian Sisters of Charity, 2003).
Santiago, Luciano P. R., To love and to suffer: the development of the religious congregations of women in the Spanish Philippines, 1565-1898 (Manila { Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2005)
Siegfried, Regina, ASC, Missionaries more and more: the history of the China mission of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 1933-1945 (Bloomington IN : Author House, 2005).
Urumpackal, Alex Paul, Vocations in India. Volume 1: The religious women (Kottayam : OIRS, 1986).
Yik-yi Chu, Cindy, The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969 (Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Yik-yi Chu, Cindy, The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the evolution of the Catholic Church (Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
AUSTRALASIA
Aubert, Suzanne, Letters on the go: the correspondence of Suzanne Aubert. Edited and translated by Jessie Munro (Wellington : Bridget Williams, 2009)
Barnard, Jill, From humble beginnings: the story of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in Victoria, 1890-2009 (Richmond, Vic. : Utber & Patullo, 2009)
Brady, Josephine Margaret, St Joseph’s island: Julian Tenison Woods and the Tasmanian Sisters of St Joseph (Adelaide : ATF, 2012)
Brumm, Geoffrey, Sent by the Word: 100 years of service by Divine Word Missionaries, 1896-1996, and Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit, 1899-1999 on Mainland New Guinea (Papua New Guinea: Divine Word Missionaries, Holy Spirit Sisters, 1995).
Burley, Stephanie, ‘An overview of the historiography of women religious in Australia’, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 26: (2005) pp. 46-30.
Christieson, Karin, In a hidden manner: the story of the Marist Sisters in Aotearoa-New Zealand (Papatoetoe : Marist Sisters, 2011)
Clark, Mary Ryllis, Loreto in Australia (Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2009
Crowley, Marie, Women of the Vale: Perthville Josephites, 1872-1972 (Richmond, Vic. : Spectrum, 2002)
Edman, Penelope A., An audacious Aussie dream: Family Care Sisters’ story (Strathfield, NSW : St Pauls, 2010)
Farquer, Aileen M., Through their eyes sharply: the cultural mission of the Sisters of St Joseph (Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008)
Flaherty, Teresa A., Crossings in Mercy: the story of the Sisters of Mercy Papua New Guinea, 1956-2006. (St Mary’s, S.A. : Openbook Howden, 2008)
Flannigan, Mary de Porres, Like a mustard seed: the history of the Sisters of Mercy, Wellington (Wellington : SIsters of Mercy, 2009)
Fouhy, Helena M., One love, many faces: Brigidines in New Zealand, 1898-1998 (Masterton : Congregation of St Brigid, 1998)
Garaty, Janice, Providence provides: Brigidine Sisters in teh New South Wales province (Sydney : University of New South Wales, 2013)
Gardiner, Paul, An extraordinary Australian: Mary MacKillop (Newtown NSW : E. J. Dwyer, 1993)
Grant, Susannah, Windows on a women’s world: the Dominican Sisters in Aotearoa New Zealand (Dunedin : Otago University Press, 2017).
Gregory, Helen, Expressions of Mercy: Brisbane’s Mater Hospitals, 1906-2006 (St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland, 2006)
Jacobs, Pat, ‘Free women on a savage frontier: St John of God Sisters on the Kimberley Pearling coast of Western Australia’, Australian Journal of Irish studies, IV, 159-267.
Killerby, Catherine Kovesi, Ursula Frayne: a biography (Perth : University of Nortre Dame, Australia, 1996)
Kirk, Marcienne D., Remembering your mercy: Mother Mary Cecilia Maher & the first Sisters of Mercy in New Zealand, 1850-1880 (Auckland : Sisters of Mercy, 1998)
Kovesi, Catherine, Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of the Good Shpherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti (Carringbah, NSW : Playright, 2006)
Lovell-Smith, Margaret, The enigma of Sister Mary Leo: the story behind New Zealand’s most famous singing teacher (Auckland : Reed, 1998)
MacGinley, M. Rosa, Ancient tradition, new world: Dominican Sisters in Eastern Australia, 1867-1958 (Strathfield, NSW : St Pauls, 2009)
MacGinley, M.Rosa, A dynamic of hope: institutes of women religious in Australia (Darlinghurst, NSW : Crossing Press, 2002)
MacGinley, M. Rosa, A lamp lit: history of the Poor Clares, Waverley, Australia, 1883 – 2004 (Strathfield, NSW : St Pauls, 2005)
MacGinley, M. Rosa, Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea 1966-2006 (Wagga Wagga : Triple D Books, 2008)
MacGinley, M. Rosa, ‘Nuns and Sisters – a question of historical evolution’, The Australasian Catholic Record 85: 3 (2008) pp. 301-9
MacKillop, Mary, Mary MacKillop and a nest of crosses: correspondence with Father Julian Tenison Woods, 1869-1872. Arranged and edited by Sheila McCreanor (North Sydney : Sisters of St Joseph, 2010)
MacKillop, Mary, Mary MacKillop in challenging times, 1883-1899: a collection of letters. Arranged and edited by Sheila McCreanor (North Sydney : Sisters of St Joseph, 1996)
MacKillop, Mary, Mary MacKillop, on mission to her last breath: correspondence about the foundations of the Sisters of St Joseph in Aotearoa New Zealand in Mary’s final yearas, 1881-1909 . Arranged and edited by Sheila McCreanor (North Sydney : Sisters of St Joseph, 2009)
McBride, Joan C., A constant gospel in a changing church: Marist Sisters in Fiji, 1892-1990 (Armidale, NSW : University of New England, 1991)
McBride, Joan C., When we are weak, then we are strong: a history of the Marist Sisters in Australia, 1907-1984 (Haberfield, NSW : Marist Sisters, 2006)
McGrath, Madeleine Sophie, These women: women religious in the history of Australia, the Sisters of Mercy of Parramatta, 1888-1988 (Kensington, NSW : University of New South Wales, 1990)
McGuirk, Maureen, Elizabeth McQuoin, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, Sydney, Australia, 1865: singing to the end of the service (Carringbah, NSW : Playright, 2007)
McLay, Anne, Women on the move: Mercy’s triple spiral. A history of the Sisters of Mercy, Ireland to Argentina 1856-1880 to South Australia 1880 (Adelaide : Sisters of Mercy, 1996)
McLay, Anne, Women out of their sphere: a history of the Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia (Northbridge, WA : Vanguard, 1992)
Mijolla, Marie-Cécile de, Origins in Oceania: Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary, 1845-1931 (Rome : Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary, 1984)
Munro, Jessie, The story of Suzanne Aubert (Auckland : Auckland University, 1996).
Northey, Helen, Living the truth: the Dominican Sisters in South Australia, 1868-1958 (Adelaide : Flinders University, 1999)
O’Brien, Anne, God’s willing workers: women and religion in Australia (2005)
O’Connor, Heather, The challange of change: Mercy and Loreto Sisters in Ballarat, 1950-1980 (Ballan, Vic. : Connor Court, 2013)
O’Donoghue, Mary Xaverius, Mother Vincent Whitty: woman educator in a masculine society (Parkville, Vic. : Melbourne University, 1972)
O’Donoghue, Tom, Come follow me and forsake temptation: Catholic schooling and the recruitment and retention of teachers for religious teaching orders, 1922–1965 (New York: Peter Lang, 2004)
O’Sullivan, M. M. K., ‘A cause of trouble’? : Irish nuns and English clerics (Sydney : Crossing Press, 1995)
Rozier, Claude, Marie-Françoise Perroton: une figure de proue de la mission Mariste en Océanie (Paris : Osmondes, 1997)
Smith, Susan, Call to mission: teh story of the Mission Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand and Samoa (Auckland : David Ling, 2010)
Strevens, Diane, In step with time: a history of the Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth, Wanganui, New Zealand (Auckland : David Ling, 2001)
Strevens, Diane, MacKillop women: the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1883-2006 (Auckland : David Ling, 2008)
Sturrock, Morna, Women of strength, women of gentleness: Brigidine Sisters, Victorian province (Melbourne : David Lovell, 1995)
Trotter, Ann, Mary Potter’s Little Company of Mary: the New Zealand experience, 1914-2002 (Welington : Bridget Williams, 2003)
Walsh, Margaret, The Good Sams: Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1857-1969 (Mulgrave, Vic. : John Garratt, 2001)
Whitty, M. Vincent, The correspondence of Mother Vincent Whitty, 1839 to 1892. Compiled and edited by Anne Hetherington and Pauline Smoothy (Brisbane : University of Queensland, 2011)
AUSTRIA
Fritzer, Erica et al. (editors), 300 Jahre Englische Fräulein in Österreich: Wegereiterinnen moderner Frauenbildung ([Wein : Holzhausen Druck], 2005).
Haszprunar, Adele, Teilende Hände, heilende Hände: das caritative Wirken der Frauenorden und Kongregationen und die Soziale Frage in Wien, 1815-1914 (St Ottilien : EOS, 2009).
Schödl, Ingeborg, Hildegard Burjan: Frau zwischen Politik und Kirche Wien : Dom, 2008).
BELGIUM
Billiart, Julie, The letters of Saint Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Traanslated and edited by Sisters Francis Rosner and Lucy Tinsley (Rome : Gregorian University, 1974)
Blin de Bourdon, Françoise, The memoirs of MOther Frances Blin de Bourdon (Westminster MD : Christian Classics, 1975)
Blin de Bourdon, Françoise, Selected letters of MOther Saint Joseph Blin de Bourndon. Sister Mary Frances McCarthy translator and editor. (Westminster MD : Christian Classics, 1990)
Cnockaert, Lucienne, Pierre-Joseph Triest, 1760-1836: le Vincent de Paul belge (Louvain : Publications universitaires de Louvain, 1974)
De Ridder, Jozef, ‘t zijn al geen heiligen die grote paternosters dragen: kleding van vrouwelijke religieuzen in de 19de en 20ste eeuw (Brugge : L. Vanhaecke, 2002).
Hanoteau, Marie-Émilie, Une grande nivelloise: Mère Gertrude (Justine Debille) fondatrice des Sœurs de l’Enfant Jésus de Nivelles (Nivelles : Institut de l’Enfant Jésus, 1985).
Harline, Craig, The burdens of Sister Margaret: private lives in a seventeenth-century convent (New York : Doubleday, 1994)
Hermans, Roeland, Suenens, Kristien, Christens, Ria and Vandenberghe, An, Zusters in oorlog. Leven en lijden in het klooster tijdens de bezetting (Kalmthout: Pelckmans, 2021) (Review (in Dutch) by Luc De Munck)
LaCroix, Marie-Thérèse, L’Hôpital Saint-Nicolas du Bruille (Saint-André) à Tournai de sa fondation à sa mutation en cloître, env. 1230-1611 (Louvain : Institut d’Études médiévales, 1977)
LaCroix, Marie-Thérèse, La vie au monastère Saint-André de Tournai, 1611-1796 (Ramegnies-Chin : Religieuses de Saint-André, 1999)
LaCroix, Marie-Thérèse, La vie à Saint-André au XIXème siècle, 1796-1914 (Ramegnies-Chin : Religieuses de Saint-André, 2007) contains material on the work of the sisters on teh CHannel Islands and in London
Marcélis, Anne-Dolorès, Sous le voile, le monde des religieuses cloîtrées au XXe siècle (Ottignies : Quorum, 1997)
Moniales en Belgique et Luxembourg, du Moyen-Âge à nos jours: filles du silence (Bastogne: Musée diocésain en Piconrue, 1998)
Scheerlinck, Karl, Mère Jeanne (1824-1907): stichteres van de Zusters Dienstmaagden van de Heilige Harten van Jezus en Maria. Haar geestelijk en materieel erfgoed (Antwerpen: Zusters Dienstmaagden van de Heilige Harten van Jezus en Maria, 2007).
Segers, Yves, Zusters in het wit: de gasthuiszusters Augustinessen van Boom, 1846-1996, 150 jaar ziekenzorg in de Rupelstreek (Leuven: KADOC, 1996).
Strobbe, Karel & Suenens, Kristien, Zusters Kindsheit Jesu, 1835-2010 (Leuven: KADOC, 2010)
Suenens, Kristien, Humble women, powerful nuns: a female struggle for autonomy in a men’s church (Leuven: KADOC, 2020).
Suenens, Kristien & De Staercke, Anneleen, Eén van hart en één van ziel: geschiedenis van de Gasthuiszusters-Augustinessen van Lier, 1130-2005 (Leuven: KADOC, 2005)
Timmermans, Ruth, Het Convent van Betlehem: een half millennium vrouwelijke spiritualiteit en bedrijvigheid (Leuven : KADOC, 2000)
Vanderstraeten, Raf & Preneel, Marij, 175 jaar Zusters der Christlijke Scholen Vorselaar (Leuven : KADOC, 1996)
Vromen, Suzanne, Hidden children of the Holocaust: Belgian nuns and their daring rescue of young Jews from the Nazis (Oxford : OUP, 2008)
CANADA
Belanger, Dina, Autobiography of Dina Belanger (Mother Marie Sainte-Cecile de Rome) Religious of Jesus & Mary (Canada: Religious of Jesus and Mary, 1984)
Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, ‘Memories (In)forming the Present: Interrogating the past in a Process of Renewal with t.he Missionary Oblate Sisters of Manitoba, a Francophone Teaching Congregation’, in, Canadian Historical Consciousness in an International Context: theoretical Frameworks, (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2001).
Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, The Missionary Oblate Sisters: mission and vision (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005)
D’Allaire, Micheline, Vingt ans de crise chez les religieuses du Québec, 1960-1980 (Montréal: Bergeron, 1984)
D’Allaire, Micheline, Les communautés religieuses de Montréal. Tome 1: Les communautés et l’assistance sociale à Montréal, 1659-1900. Tome 2: Les communautés religieuses et l’éducation à Montréal, 1657-1900 (Montréal: Méridien, 1997-2002)
Danylewycz, Marta, Taking the veil: an alternative to marriage, motherhood and spinsterhood in Quebec, 1940-1920 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987)
Dumont, Micheline, Les couventines: l’éducation des filles au Québec dans les congrégations religieuses (Montréal: Boréal, 1986).
Gauthier, Chantal, Femmes sans frontières: l’histoires des Sœurs Missionnaires de l’Immaculée-Conception, 1902-2007 (Montréal : Carte blanche, 2008).
Goulet, Denise, Quand l’amour tisse une vie: Mère Marie du Sacré-Cœur (Frédérica Giroux) , fondatrice des Sœurs Missionnaires du Christ-Roi (Montréal : Carte Blanche, 2008).
Gray, Colleen, The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796 (2007)
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, ‘”Nach Amerika!” Schwestern ohne Grenzen’, L’Homme 16 (2005) 2, 97-115
Jean, Marguerite, Évolution des communautés religieuses de femmes au Canada de 1639 à nos jours (Montréal : Fides, 1977)
Jones, Marshall B. and Elizabeth Rapley, ‘Behavioral contagion and the rise of convent education in France’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (2001) 4, 489-521
Juteau, Danielle & Laurin, Nicole, Un métier et une vocation: le travail des religieuses au Québec de 1901 à 1971 (Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1996)
Lahaise, Robert, Les édifices conventuels du Vieux Montréal (Montréal: Hurtubise, 1980)
Laperle, Dominique, ‘De soeur Marie-Achille à soeur Marie-Zozime: L’usage des prénoms masculins chez les Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie (1844-1969)’, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (2007) pp. 355-72.
Laperle, Dominique, ‘”Une parole de Dieu fraîchement exprimée”: Fondements, usages et représentations du musée scolaire dans les pensionnats de filles des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie (1843-1981)’, Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation (2007)
Laperrière, Guy, Les congrégations religieuses: de la France au Québec, 1880-1914. Tome 1: Premières bourrasques, 1880-1900. Tome 2: Au plus fort de la tourmente, 1901-1904. Tome 3: Vers les eaux plus calmes, 1905-1914 (Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1996-2005)
Laperrière, Guy, Histoire des communautés religieuses au Québec (Montréal : VLB, 2013)
Laurin, Nicole; Juteau, Danielle & Duchesne, Lorraine, Ä la recherche d’un monde oublié: les communautés religieuses de femmes au Québec de 1900 à 1970 (Montréal : Le Jour, 1991)
Lavallée, Madeleine & Valcour, Pierre, Les communautés religieuses au Québec: il était une fois la foi (Québec : Septontrion, 2009)
Little, Anne M., ‘Cloistered Bodies: Convents in the Anglo-American Imagination in the British Conquest of Canada’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 39 (2006), 187-200.
Manuel, Paul Christopher, Lawrence C. Reardon, Clyde Wilcox, editors, The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives (2006)
McMurtie, Rita, Marquée du signe de l’accueil: Sœur Marie Thomas d’Aquin, fondatrice de la Congrégation des Sœurs de l’Institut Jeanne d’Arc (Ottawa: Institut Jeanne d’Arc, 1996).
Raguin, Yves, Au-delà de son rêve: Tétreault (Montréal : Fides, 1991).
Rink, Deborah, Spirited women: a history of Catholic Sisters in British Columbia (Vancouver : Sisters’ Association of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, 2000)
Robillard, Denise, Emilie Tavernier Gamelin (Montréal : Meredien, 1988).
Robillard, Denise, La traversée du Saguenay: cent ans d’éducation. sœurs de Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil de Chicoutimi (Montréal : Bellarmin, 1994).
Robillard, Denise, Aventurières de l’ombre, de l’obéissance au discernement: les missions des Sœurs de la Providence, 1962-1997 (Outremont PQ : Carte Blanche, 2001).
Ross, Alec, Walking in hope: Sisters of Providence of St Vincent de Paul, 1961-2006 (Kingston, Ont. : Sisters of Providence of St Vincent de Paul, 2007).
Ross, Sheila, ‘Faithful Companions of Jesus in the field of education in Brandon Manitoba, 1883-1895’, Canadian Catholic Historical Association Historical Studies 71 (2004).
Rousseau, François, Croix et le scalpel: les Augustines de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Tome 1:1639-1892. Tome 2: 1892-1989. (Sillery PQ : Septontrion, 1989-1994).
Skidmore, Colleen, ‘Photography in the convent: Grey Nuns, Québec, 1861’, Histoire Sociale / Social History 35 (2002) 70, 279-310
Smyth, Elizabeth M., ‘Writing the History of Women Religious in Canada (1996-2001)’, International Journal of Canadian Studies, 23 (2001), pp. 205-212.
Smyth, Elizabeth, ed., Changing Habits: Women’s Religious Orders in Canada (Canada: Novalis Publications, 2007).
Smyth, Elizabeth, ‘Preserving Habits: Archival Research Wtihin Communities of English Canadian Women Religious’, in A Century Stronger – Women’s History in Canada 1900-2000 edited by S Cook, L McLean and K O’rourke (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2000).
Smyth, Elizabeth, ‘Professionalization Among the Professed: The Case of Roman Catholic Women Religious’, in Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women’s Professional Work edited by Elizabeth Smyth, Sandra Acker, Sandra Bourne and Alison Prentice (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1999), pp. 234-254.
Spicer, Andrew and Sarah Hamilton, (eds.), Defining the Holy: the Delineation of Sacred Space (2005)
EUROPE
De Cant, Genevieve et al, A world of independent women, from the 12th century to the present day: the Flemish beguinages (Riverside Ct USA: Luciole Guides, 2003).
De Maeyer, Jan et al. (editors), Religious institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries (Leuven : KADOC, 2004).
De Maeyer, J., H.-H. Ewers, R. Ghesquière, M. Manson, P. Pinsent and P. Quaghebeur, Religion, children’s literature and modernity in Western Europe, 1750-2000 (Leuven : KADOC, 2005).
Donovan, Grace, Italian Women on Holy Ground (privately printed history of Holy Union Sisters, contact Sancta Unione dei Suori Cuori, Casa Generealizia, Viale Aurelia Saffi 28, 00152 Rome, Italy).
Hellincks, Bart; Simon, Frank & Depaepe, Marc, Forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters: a historiographical essay on the educational work of Catholic women religious in the 19th and 20th centuries (Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2009).
Hufton, Olwen and Frank Tallett. ‘Communities of Women, the Religious Life and Public Service in Eighteenth-Century France’, in M. J. Boxer and J. H. Quataert (eds.), Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 75-85.
Hufton, Olwen, Women in the Religious Life (Florence: European University Institute, 1996).
Spicer, Andrew and Sarah Hamilton, (eds.), Defining the holy: the delineation of sacred space (2005)
Werner, Yvonne (editor), Nuns and Sisters in the Nordic countries after the Reformation: a female counter-culture in modern society (Uppsala : Swedish Institute of Mission Research, 2004).
FRANCE
Beauté, Marie de Saint-Jean & Mulatier, Marie de la Trinité, “L’abîme appelant l’abîme”, Correspondance 1: 27 novembre 1928 – 28 août 1940 (Paris : Cerf, 2013).
Bence, Colette (editor), Bon Sauveur, de Saint-Lô à Caen: regards croisé sur 300 ans d’histoire (Bayeux : OREP, 2012).
Brot, Agnès & La Borie, Guillemette de, Héroïnes de Dieu: l’épopée des religieuses missionnaires au XIXe siècle (Paris : Presses de la Renaissance, 2011).
Cabanel, Patrick (editor), Le grand exil: des congrégations religieuses françaises, 1901-1914 (Paris : Cerf, 2005).
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Gläsel, Kirsten, Zwischen Seelenheil und Menschenwürde: Wandlungsprozesse weiblicher katholischer Ordensgemeinschaften inDeutschland. Die Schwestern vom Guten Hirten, 1945-1985 (Münster : Aschendorff, 2013)
Kasper, Katharina, Katharina Kasper, Gründerinen der Kongregation der Armen Dienstmägde Jesu Christi: Schriften. Band 1: Erste Regeln und eeigenhändige Briefe. Band 2: In ihrem Auftrag verfaßte Schreiben (Kevelear : Butzon & Bercker, 2001-2004).
Meiwes, Relinde, Arbeiterinnen des Herrn: Katolische Frauen-kongregationen im 19 Jahrhundert (Frankfurt : Campus, 2000).
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ITALY
Arosio, Paola & Sani, Roberto, Sulle orme di Vincenzo de’Paoli: Jeanne-Antide Thouret e le Suore della Carità dalla Francia rivoluzonaria alla Napoli della Restaurazione (Milano : Vita e Pensiero, 2001).
Cortesi, Maria Elena, Avventura che continua da un secolo: le suore italiane del Bambino Gesú (Gorle : Velar, 2002).
Falzone, Maria Teresa, Le congregazione religiose femminili nella Sicilia dell’otocento (Caltanissetta : Salvatore Sciascia, 2002).
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LATIN AMERICA
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POLAND
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SWITZERLAND
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Cantwell, Margaret, North to share: the Sisters of Saint Ann in Alaska and the Yukon Territory (Victoria BC : Sisters of St. Ann, 1992).
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Harrington, Ann M., Creating community: Mary Frances Clarke and her companions (Dubuque : Mount Carmel, 2004).
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Hoy, Suellen, Good hearts: Catholic sisters in Chicago’s past (Urbana : University of Illinois, 2006).
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Kane, Paula M., Sister Thorn and Catholic mysticism in modern America (Chapel Hill NC : University of North Carolina, 2013)
Keating, Kevina & Traviss, Mary Peter, Pioneer mentoring in teacher preparation from the voices of women religious (St Cloud MN : North Star Press, 2001).
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