Quiet Revolutionaries

The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious the Grey Nuns of Lewiston Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America. The fact that this community lived in a hostile Protestant-dominated industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling.