The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks is a devout historical biography tracing the brief but resonant life of the seventeenth-century Mohawk-Algonquin convert later canonized as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Walworth situates Kateri amid Iroquois society, French missionary activity, colonial conflict, and the spiritual culture of New France. Written in an elevated, reverential Victorian prose, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century Catholic biographical tradition, combining documentary history, hagiography, and moral instruction. Ellen H. Walworth, an American Catholic writer and one of the founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, brought to this work both antiquarian discipline and religious sympathy. Her interest in early American history, genealogy, and Catholic memory shaped her portrayal of Kateri as not merely a pious figure, but a native woman whose sanctity emerged within the violent and complex borderlands of colonial North America. This book is recommended for readers interested in Catholic hagiography, Indigenous encounters with Christianity, women's religious history, and nineteenth-century historical writing. Though marked by the assumptions of its age, it remains a significant literary and devotional monument to Kateri's enduring spiritual legacy.

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