Say little, do much : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century / Sioban Nelson.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001], ©2001.

237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.

"Say little, do much": veils of invisibility--nursing nuns -- Martha's turn: vowed women and virtuous work -- Free enterprise and resourcefulness: an American success story--the Daughters of Charity in the northeast -- Behind enemy lines: religious nursing in England--conflicts and solutions -- At the margins of the empire: religious wars in the hospital wards of colonial Sydney -- Frontier: "the means to begin are none" -- Crossing the confessional divide: German Catholic and Protestant nurses -- The twentieth century: "every day life got smaller".