Ivy May Bolton
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Ivy May Bolton was born in London on May 18, 1879. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice Behenna, and the sister of Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton
Guy Reginald Bolton was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the U.S., he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G...

, the playwright. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. Ivy attended St. Gabriel's School, a boarding school run by the Sisters of St. Mary, in Peekskill, New York, from which she graduated in 1898. She was still living at St. Mary's Convent in 1900 and 1910. In 1911 she entered the Community of St. Mary
Community of St. Mary
The Community of St. Mary is an Anglican religious order of nuns with three independent houses located in Greenwich, New York, Sewanee, Tennessee, and Mukwonago, Wisconsin...

, where she took the name Sister Mercedes. She made her life vows on August 18, 1914 at the Motherhouse in Peekskill. She taught English and History in various schools run by the order, and between 1923 and 1952, she wrote more than a dozen books. She eventually retired to the Motherhouse in Peekskill and died there on May 9, 1961.

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