Sister Beatrice "Bea" Jeffries
Sister Beatrice

Author: The Jeffries Family

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1387061356

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Sister Beatrice "Bea" Jeffries' was an African American nun who served and did great things for all people and especially people of color. Her story is filled with family and friends comments about their lives growing up with her and watching her ministry blossom into great works. She comes from a loving family from the far Northeast corner of Washington, D.C., in an area called Deanwood. Her family was one of the largest families in Deanwood. She was born number 10 out of 11 children and everyone knew Bea because of her involvement in church and community activities. Bea is survived by seven siblings who authored this booklet and they also authored their family book entitled "904". Bea was a very out going and educated nun with a purpose to make a living and make lives better. Her stories are inspiring and her legacy will live forever in Catholic history. Sister Bea was also Vice-President of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament order.

My Invisible Sister
My Invisible Sister

Author: Beatrice Colin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1599906783

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Ten-year-old Frank's thirteen-year-old sister Elizabeth, invisible since birth, continually causes trouble, forcing the family to move again and again, but Frank wants to stay put and decides to find a way to make her visible.

Sister Beatrice
Sister Beatrice

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)

Published: 2001-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781589632479

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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian author, the outstanding exponent of symbolist drama and the author of The Blue Bird and Pelleas and Melisande. Maeterlinck was born August 29, 1862, in Ghent and educated in law at the university there. He abandoned the legal profession when he moved to Paris in 1886 and came under the influence of the symbolist poets. Reacting against the prevailing naturalism of French literature, Maeterlinck wrote some symbolist poetry, notably Les serres chaudes (Hothouses, 1889). He is known principally for his plays, for which he received the 1911 Nobel Prize. He lectured in the U.S. in 1921 and spent World War II there. Maeterlinck returned to Europe following the war and died May 6, 1949, in Nice, France. Maeterlinck's plays are characterized by clear and simple writing, by a dreamlike atmosphere, and by the suggestion rather than the direct expression of ideas and emotions. His early plays are marked by an attitude of profound melancholy and pessimism in the face of evil and death; in his later plays this attitude gives way to a belief in the redeeming power of love and in the reality of human happiness. His plays include The Princess Maleine (1889); the melancholy fantasy masterpiece Pelleas et Melisande (1892), made into an opera (1902) by the French composer Claude Debussy; and The Blue Bird (1909), which has become a classic for children. Less popular are Monna Vanna (1902) and The Burgomaster of Stilmonde (1918). Maeterlinck was also the author of many works in prose that deal with philosophic questions and with nature; they include The Treasure of the Humble (1896), The Life of the Bee (1901), and The Intelligence of Flowers (1907).