Questions concerning Victorian convents
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indriAssume, for the sake of it, that I know very little about organised religion. All my memories of Sunday school involve colouring in Joseph's coat.
So how long would one spend in a convent before one could take holy orders? What might the preparation involve? Could anyone point me towards a URL or book on life in mid-Victorian nunneries? My google skills seem to be failing me tonight and I want to get back to the writing.
So how long would one spend in a convent before one could take holy orders? What might the preparation involve? Could anyone point me towards a URL or book on life in mid-Victorian nunneries? My google skills seem to be failing me tonight and I want to get back to the writing.
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maybe one of these would help...
Date: 2005-01-08 03:13 pm (UTC)Relatively recent:
Elizabeth Rapley. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 by Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Clear, CaitrĂona, Nuns in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Gill and Macmillan ; Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1988, c1987.
Barbara Walsh, Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937: A Social History. Irish Academic Press (January 1, 2002)
Magray, Mary Peckham. The transforming power of the nuns: women, religion, and cultural change in Ireland, 1750-1900, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Contemporary accounts:
Eva Mary, Mother, 1862-1928. Community life for women, by Sister Eva Mary, with introduction by Boyd Vincent. Milwaukee, Young Churchman Co., 1905.
Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899. The nun of Kenmare; an autobiography.
Boston, Ticknor and company, 1889.
Miller, Neva Pinkham. Behind convent walls, Newcomerstown, Ohio, 1924.
Richardson, Eliza Smith Mrs., The veil lifted; or, The romance and reality of convent life. Boston, H. Hoyt [1869]
Re: maybe one of these would help...
Date: 2005-01-08 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: maybe one of these would help...
Date: 2005-01-12 08:58 am (UTC)But that's a tremendous-looking list. The Walsh and the Richardson look like good places to start.
Is this an area you're interested in yourself or were you simply flexing impressive information-search skills?
Re: maybe one of these would help...
Date: 2005-01-12 11:08 am (UTC)Re: maybe one of these would help...
Date: 2005-01-12 02:01 pm (UTC)