This
page has been created to assist people wishing to find out more
from published books concerning the History of the Society of
the Sisters of Bethany.
TITLES
AND INFORMATION RE BOOKS
REFERRING TO THE SOCIETY OF THE SISTERS OF BETHANY
"Stolen
Daughters, Virgin Mothers" Susan Mumm
Leicester University Press 1999
(Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain) ISBN 0-7185-0151-9
“Dictionary of Religious Orders”
Peter Day Burns & Oates 2001
ISBN 0 800 12314 6
"THE
CALL OF THE CLOISTER" Peter F Anson SPCK 1955
[Religious Communities and kindred bodies in the Anglican Communion]
p.410 [cf P.405-412]
“Apostles
of Love” Cyril Moxley 1991
[Lives of 4 people, including Etheldreda Anna Benett]
“The
Religious Communities of the Church of England” Allan
T Cameron Faith Press 1918 p.88-91
“Anglican
Religious Communities Year Book 2006/7” Fifth Edition
Canterbury Press, Norwich ISBN: 1-85311-654-8 Published: August
2005
www.orders.anglican.org/arcyb/
“Guide
to the Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion”
Mowbrays 1951
“The Church of the East and The Church of England
- A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission”
J F Coakley Clarendon Press Oxford 1992 ISBN 0-19-826744-4
“Kurds
and Christians” Rev F M Heazell & Mrs Margoliouth
1913
Wells Gardner, Darton & Co [SSB: p.29, 54-61, 86-91,105,139,192]
“Historical
Records of the Church of the Province of South Africa” Cecil
Lewis and G E Edwards
SPCK 1934 [SSB: p.142]
The Retreat Association, The Central Hall, 256
Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UH
www.retreats.org.uk/
"SIR NINIAN COMPER - The Last Gothic Revivalist"
Anthony Symondson
[The Life and Work of Sir Ninian Comper 1964-1960]
Royal Institute of British Architects, Heinz Gallery, Portman
Square,
Brochure designed and produced by Blueprint magazine, 20 January
- 27 February 1988
Printed by Cheney and Sons Ltd, Banbury, Oxon
[see Bibliography
in the back of this publication - and on web-page]
New
Publications:
"Sir Ninian Comper - An Introduction to his life
and work with complete gazetteer"
Anthony Symondson SJ and Stephen Arthur Bucknall Spire
Books & the Ecclesiological Society
ISBN 1-904965-11-3
“Anglican
Church Embroidery - The Collaboration between John Ninian Comper
and the Sisters of Bethany, 1885 to 1930” Beryl
Moss [Bolton Institute/Manchester Metropolitan University]
Dissertation presented in part fulfilment of the MA History of
Art and Design October 1997
[see Bibliography
in the back of this publication - and on web-page]
"Beginners Guide to Goldwork"
Ruth Chamberlin Search
Press
ISBN-10:0-85532-954-8 [See pages 10/11]
"Anglican
Papalism - an illustrated history 1900-1960" Michael
Yelton Canterbury Press
ISBN 978 1 85311 861 6 2005
SSB is described as an established order for women
which did not identify itself with Roman devotions as thoroughly
as some other communities, but remained committed to the unity
of the Church, always saying prayers for that object.
“Christianity
in Iraq” Suha Rassam Published by Gracewing ISBN:
0 85244 633 0
Page: 119
Also
of interest with the Assyrian Church:
"Assyrian Church Customs & the Murder of Mar
Shimun"
by Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun 1983
Mar Shimun
Memorial Fund
ISBN 0-931428-02-5
“Light
from the East: A Symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian
Churches” compiled by the Right Reverend Henry
Hill, published by the Anglican Book Centre, Toronto, Canada ISBN:
0-919891-90-X Page: 116
"Surma
l'Assyro-Chaldéenne (1883-1975) Dans la
toumente de Mésopotamie" Claire Weibel
Yacoub
Published: L'Harmattan, Paris 2007
ISBN: 978-2-296-02926-2 See
Index for Page numbers of SSB
HISTORIES
OF OTHER COMMUNITIES, WITH REFERENCES TO SISTERS OF BETHANY
“Corn of Wheat - the life and history of the Community
of St Francis” Mother Elizabeth CSF
Becket Publications Oxford 1981 [From ‘xiii’ onwards]
“A Woman of Unity - Mother Lurana of Graymoor”
Sister Mary Celine SA
Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement, Graymoor, New York 1956 [From
19ff; 35ff]
“All Saints: Birth and Growth of a Community”
Peter Mayhew
Parchment (Oxford) ltd Jan 1993 [see Index: Etheldreda Benett/Sisters
of Bethany]
“The Community of the Holy Family 1898-1958 - The
First 60 Years” [p. 3, 7/8]
OTHER
BOOKS CONCERNING THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
“Unveiled
- Nuns Talking” Mary Louden Chatto & Windus
1992
“New
Habits - Today’s Women who choose to become Nuns”
Isabel Losada Hodder & Stoughton 1999
“Against
All Reason” Geoffrey Moorhouse 1969
Weidenfeld & Nicolson SBN 297 17679X
“Consider
your Call - A Theology of Monastic Life Today”
SPCK 1978 Daniel Rees and others
ISBN 0 281 03609 8
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