This is a well-worked introductory study which brings out well the contribution Maude Petre made as a woman to the controversies of her time. * The Heythrop Journal * From this appreciative and balanced study, there emerges the portrait of a sincere, gifted, and independent woman who deserves to be remembered fondly. * Theological Studies * ...a valuable resource for professors and students who are studying Modernism as well as the relationship between spirituality and theology. * Toronto Journal Of Theology * The book's strength lies in its careful presentation of a life of integrity, complexity and contradiction, and its demonstration that reflection on such a life offers meaning ....Insight....a worthy study. * Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses * An important contribution about a fascinating woman. -- Mary Jo Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington * Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses * ...superior. [Ellen Leonard] has thoroughly researched the sources and presented a well documented, fascinating, and sometimes moving narrative about the great lady who deserves to emerge from Tyrell's shadow. An important contribution to the field of modernist studies; belongs in all university and seminary libraries. * Religious Studies Review * This is a well-worked introductory study which brings out well the contribution Maude Petre made as a woman to the controversies of her time. * The Heythrop Journal * From this appreciative and balanced study, there emerges the portrait of a sincere, gifted, and independent woman who deserves to be remembered fondly. * Theological Studies * ...a valuable resource for professors and students who are studying Modernism as well as the relationship between spirituality and theology. * Toronto Journal Of Theology * The book's strength lies in its careful presentation of a life of integrity, complexity and contradiction, and its demonstration that reflection on such a life offers meaning ....Insight....a worthy study. * Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses * An important contribution about a fascinating woman. -- Mary Jo Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington * Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses * ...full of insight and accessible scholarship...a most interesting study. -- Mary Jo Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington * Network, (Journal Of The Catholic Women's Network) * Quite the best in the field, it should attract interest from a wide range of feminist scholars and church historians. -- Robert Butterworth, Roehampton Institute, London * Network, (Journal Of The Catholic Women's Network) *