An examination of the development of Roman Catholic and Anglican female religious orders in 19th-century Britain, and the prejudices that they encountered.
This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Bishop William Ullathorne and His Defense of Convents: The 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of Convents 2. They Walled Up Nuns, Didn't They? H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter and Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England 3. Two Lectures at Bath: The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and the Nunnery Question 4. The Myth and Reality of Sr. Barbara Ubryk, the Imprisoned Nun of Cracow: English Interpretations of a Victorian Religious Controversy 5. An American