CORDELIA FRANCES BIDDLE teaches creative writing at Drexel University s Pennoni Honors College and received the college s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. A member of the Authors Guild, she is the author of "Beneath the Wind," "Without Fear," "Deception s Daughter," and "The Conjurer." She has contributed to "Town and Country," "Hemispheres," and "W," and won the 1997 SATW Lowell Thomas travel-writing award for Three Perfect Days in Philadelphia. She is a descendant of Francis Martin Drexel, grandfather of Saint Katharine Drexel."
"Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down." --Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi"Biddle is a scrupulous researcher, but maintains a refreshingly lucid, readable style."--Publishers Weekly"In Saint Katharine, Cordelia Biddle brilliantly portrays Katharine Drexel emerging from the world of banking, debutante parties, estates, and pleasure cruises, into a life of relentless work on behalf of the impoverished and uneducated. Born to wealth, she offered herself and everything she owned to the poor. Shaped by nineteenth-century Philadelphia, she became a figure for all time." --Jeanne Murray Walker, author of The Geography of Memory
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