SISTER KATE : A Life dedicated to Children in Need of Care

WEST AUSTRALIANA

A personal history of an educated woman from an Anglican Order who devoted her life to under-privileged children; first in England in the slums of London, and then in Western Australia where she founded the Parkerville and Queens Park Children’s Homes during the first half of the century.

History of Sister Kate’s life in England and Western Australia, and her establishment and running of children’s homes particularly Queen’s Park Children’s Home; Sister Kate’s relationship with A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines; Moore River Settlement.

• xxv, 454 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
• Bibliography: p. 443-447.

#0820R/231021/101123 9781875560998 First Edition.

• Kate, Sister, 1860-1946
• Parkerville Home — History
• Community of the Sisters of the Church
• Orphanages — Western Australia — Parkerville — History
• Nuns — Western Australia — Perth — Biography
• Child welfare – Care services
• Race relations
• Child welfare – Children’s homes
• History – Biographies – Non-Indigenous
• Perth (SW WA SH50-14)
• Moore River (SW WA SH50-14)