Background
She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice (née Behenna), and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton.
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She attended Saint Gabriel"s School, a boarding school run by the Sisters of Saint Mary in Peekskill, where she graduated in 1898.
Career
She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New New York She was still living at Street Mary"s Convent in 1900 and 1910
In 1911 she entered the Community of Saint Mary, 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, New York, where she died on May 9, 1961, nine days before her 82nd birthday.
