Publications

‘The Story of Suzanne Aubert’ by Jessie Munro

A full and accurate biography of Suzanne Aubert. First published in 1996 by the
Auckland University Press.
Winner of the 1997 Montana NZ Book of the Year Award.

‘Suzanne Aubert and the Meeting of Language’ 1996.

‘Suzanne Aubert and her rongoa: the meeting of cultures in healing’ 1998.

‘Agents of Understanding’ the role of Archivists.

First published in 1999. These three titles are essays by Jessie Munro, click to view the full published text.

‘Mother Mary Joseph Aubert – For Love of God’ by Lucy Alcock.

Published by the National Library of New Zealand, 1992, to accompany the exhibition For Love of God; the story of Mother Mary Aubert at the National Library Gallery. It is an attractive booklet, concise, accurate, well written and liberally illustrated.

‘Audacity of Faith – Sisters of Compassion Centennial 1892 – 1992’.

Published in 1992. Compiled and edited by the Sisters of Compassion to commemorate 100 years since the foundation of the order. This book is a collection of anecdotes and accounts of people, events and places relevant to the Sisters. It gives a picture of community life and the development of various facilities, as well as history of the foundress and the congregation, and is generously illustrated with photographs. 168 pages.
This publication is recommended for those wishing to learn more about the life of Sisters of Compassion, in community and individually, their beginnings and up to 1992.
Enquiries: Contact Sisters of Compassion Archives - archives@compassion.org.nz

‘New Zealand and the French-Two Centuries of Contact’, pub. 1990.

Edited by John Dunmore. Chapter 9 – Mother Aubert, by Jessie Munro.

‘The French & the Maori’, pub. 1992.

Also edited by John Dunmore.

Chapter 5 – Meri Hohepa: Mother Aubert and the Maori

by Jessie Munro © the Fédération des Alliances Françaises de Nouvelle-Zélande.
Both published by The Heritage Press Ltd, Waikanae.

‘Petticoat Pioneers’ North Island Women of the Colonial Era,

by Miriam Macgregor. Chapter 1– Mother Mary Joseph Aubert. Published in 1973 by A.H. & A.W. Reed.

‘Never Let Go! The Remarkable Story of Mother Aubert’ by Pat Rafter.

First published in 1972 by A.H. Reed Ltd.
This book developed from the author’s thesis for his M.A. degree. The first 11 chapters cover the life story of Suzanne Aubert. Chapter 12 follows with ‘The After Years’, and the final chapter is a summary of this remarkable woman. This book relies very heavily on ‘The Reminiscences’ – a collection of stories recorded by the Sisters. It is not fully researched.

A list of articles about Suzanne Aubert from various magazines, pamphlets and newspapers is available on request from the Sisters of Compassion Archives.