Doctor Agnes Bennett

Jacket has come chipping. Pages have some discolouration.

Michael Joseph, London, 1960. Front endpaper torn out, foxing to page edges and endpapers, dustjacket has various tears with small areas of dusjacket worn away (repaired internally with brown paper and covered with plastic to protect).
The catholicity of her devotions (in no narrow religious sense) is what impresses one. The St Helens hospital and Mother Mary Aubert, the Chatham Islands and the bombed streets of London, the slums of Edinburgh and of Wellington, the needs of men as well as of women and children - and her love of books and flowers and the sun and the bush and all the enquiries of the mind : it is a generosity, an amplitude of spirit that has been bestowed upon but a few among us.
- from the foreword by Dr J.C. Beaglehole.