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As the plague spreads in nearby Waxelby, the convent's priest leaves them to perform last rites upon the dying, for fear of peasants confessing and shriving each other - ironically leaving the nuns in a similar situation when the Black Death reaches the convent. A passing traveler, Ralph Kello, comes to the convent for alms.
Novels about nuns, women who vow to dedicate their lives to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.
The book followed the 1956 publication of The Nun's Story, a novel by Kathryn Hulme, partly based on the experiences of her companion Marie Louise Habets, who left the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary,. [8] In 1965, Baldwin published her second autobiographical book, called Goose in the Jungle.
In 1959, the book was adapted into a film by screenwriter Robert Anderson and director Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story starred Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke. It was a critical and box-office success, and was nominated for eight oscars at the 32nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Hepburn's third nomination for Best Actress.
Ann Louise Gilligan – Irish Roman Catholic feminist theologian married to Senator Katherine Zappone; was a nun before leaving to pursue an academic career; Jacqueline Grennan Wexler (born Jean Marie Grennan; August 2, 1926 – January 19, 2012), commonly known as Sister J, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister who rose to prominence when she, as President of Webster College, strove ...
Rebecca Theresa Reed (1813-1838) was an American escaped nun and author of the memoir Six Months in a Convent, which influenced the first of many anti-Catholic waves. [clarification needed] Reed’s book vividly describes her experience in an Ursuline convent and has sold thousands of copies.
Marie Louise Habets (January 1905 – May 1986) was a Belgian nurse and former religious sister whose life was fictionalised as Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) in The Nun's Story, a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme.
Stone Yard Devotional is a 2024 novel by Australian writer Charlotte Wood, published by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.The novel tells the story of an unnamed narrator who becomes disillusioned with her career as an endangered species conservation specialist in Sydney amid the looming climate crisis and amid crushing despair, leaves her life and moves into a convent in rural Monaro ...