The Community of St Michael and All Angels was an Anglican religious order of nuns in South Africa.
In a letter he'd written in 1868, Twells highlighted the need for a Sisterhood to set up schools for girls in Bloemfontein.
[1] Three novices and three lay helpers under Emma, a Mother Superior, traveled from England to Bloemfontein via Port Elizabeth, arriving towards the end of April 1874.
[3] The Community's work was extended to the nearby mining town of Kimberley, from 1876, where Henrietta Stockdale, a sister, pioneered the training of nurses at the Carnarvon Hospital.
A St Michael's School was established in Kimberley but did not survive beyond the first years of the twentieth century.