Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Power, Mary James
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Power, Mary James, 1894-1967
Other form(s) of name
- Sister Mary James Power, SSND, Sister James Power, Sr. Mary James Power, Sr. M. James Power
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1894-1967
History
At the time of writing to Merton, Sr. Mary James Power, SSND, was principal and a teacher at Girls Catholic High School in Malden, Massachusetts. She also served as secondary schools supervisor for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, New England Province. She wrote two books, «Poets at Prayer» (1938) and «In the Name of the Bee: The significance of Emily Dickinson» (1943), as well as making important contributions to scholarly publications. (Biographical information courtesy of research conducted by John Collins.)