The Black Dress

Child, daughter, teacher, nun, excommunicated and then beatified. A feminist story, a Catholic story, a religious story, a spiritual story, an Australian story. An historical novel, a ‘fictional biography’.She is old now and dying but once she was young — young and poor and smart and drawn desperately to another life.

This is the story of an unconventional woman who was born into a time and a religion bound by convention.

What Mary MacKillop did with her life is part of history