Nuns & Convents

FICTION:

• Frost in May (1933)- Antonia White
• The Called and The Chosen (1957) – Monica Baldwin
• The Nun’s Story (1956)- Kathryn Hulme
• The Corner That Held Them (1948) – Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Black Narcissus (1939) – Rumer Godden
• In This House of Brede (1969) – Rumer Godden
• Sacred Hearts (2009)- Sarah Dunant
• Zella Sees Herself (1917)- E.M. Delafield
• Humbug (1922) – E. M. Delafield

PLAYS:

• Once A Catholic (1978)- Mary O’Malley

POETRY

• The Convent Threshold – Christina Rosetti

NON-FICTION:

• Unveiled (2004)- Cheryl L Reed
• Virgins of Venice (2003) – Mary Laven,
• Through the Narrow Gate (1982)- Karen Armstrong
• I Leap Over The Wall (1949) – Monica Baldwin  (download free HERE)
• Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937 – Barbara Walsh
• There’s Something About A Convent Girl (1991)– ed.Jackie Bennett