{"product_id":"elizabeth-seton-9781501705786","title":"Elizabeth Seton","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O''Donnell''s richly textured new biography.... A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.\u003c\/b\u003e? \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell has given Seton her due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO’Donnell places Seton squarely in the context of the dynamic and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O'Donnell's richly textured new biography.... A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.\u003c\/p\u003e * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author situates Seton in the America of the times, including the anti-Catholicism that O'Donnell rightly sees as more nuanced than Seton saw herself.... [A] well-documented study.\u003c\/p\u003e * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost Americans (even Catholics) know little about [St. Elizabeth Seton], as general histories of the United States tend to neglect her entirely. Catherine O'Donnell's superb new biography, a thorough account of Seton's fascinating life and extraordinary achievements, remedies that oversight.... O'Donnell brings Seton vibrantly back to life.... There is a power to this book that will remain with readers long after they complete it, and I highly recommend it to people of all faiths.\u003c\/p\u003e * First Things *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sparkling example of how saints can arise from the vicissitudes of their time.\u003ci\u003e Elizabeth Seton: American Saint\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed by those who are devoted to this American saint and by a new generation of Americans who may have overlooked her story.\u003c\/p\u003e * National Catholic Register *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine O'Donnell's \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Seton\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift to students of U.S. history, U.S. Catholicism, and Setonian affiliates of every kind. This first critical biography of the first U.S.-born saint in nearly seventy years is painstakingly researched and remarkably well-written. With ample historian's aplomb, O'Donnell weaves a compelling narrative that is easy to follow—indeed, a page-turner—and historically complex.... The book is a major achievement in the field. It deserves a wide readership and would be particularly appropriate for graduate courses in U.S. religion or U.S. Catholicism. The accessibility of O'Donnell's prose would also make it a suitable addition to advanced undergraduate courses.\u003c\/p\u003e * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful work of scholarship that is also a joy to read. \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Seton\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for anyone interested in the saint herself, in the birth of the Catholic Church in America, or what it was like to be a woman in the early years of the country calling itself the United States of America. Between Catherine O'Donnell's expressive and well-balanced writing, the voices of the various characters and the drama of Mother Seton's own life, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Seton\u003c\/i\u003e reads almost like a novel.... Seen through the life of this one ordinary and yet extraordinary woman, sainthood has never seemed so attainable.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Catholic Register *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Donnell has set a high standard for works about Catholicism and history, and those that are biographical. One interested in any or all of those fields will appreciate and welcome what she has written.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Central Minnesota Catholic Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume peels back layers of a reflective life, that of a vocation that we Jesuits would refer to as a \"contemplative-in-action,\" the rich intricacy of which I have been, up to this time, regrettably unacquainted... I was riveted by O'Donnell's scrutiny of Seton's association with John Henry Hobart, who first stirred in Elizabeth a learned attentiveness to the subtleties of Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Jesuit Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis biography will become the standard life of Seton... Catherine O'Donnell vividly describes the process by which Seton, a thirty-year-old widowed mother of five, destitute, and under the influence of several charismatic Protestant and Catholic men, made a decision to become a Roman Catholic.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this scholarly biography O'Donnell has provided a major contribution not just to the scholarship on American Catholicism but to the history of the Early Republic and to women's history.\u003c\/p\u003e * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is no ordinary hagiography; Seton was no ordinary woman. O'Donnell deftly maps her subject's life with an eye toward social, cultural, and political milieu of the antebellum United States—reminding readers that Elizabeth Seton was an American woman long before she became \"Mother Seton.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of the Early American Republic *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409322778967,"sku":"9781501705786","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501705786.jpg?v=1730506416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/elizabeth-seton-9781501705786","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}