
The Abbess of Crewe

But Felicity, after all, is something for us to practise benevolence upon.’
Muriel Spark • The Abbess of Crewe
‘Felicity’s sewing-box is the precise measure of her love and her freedom,’ says Alexandra, so soon to be Abbess of Crewe. ‘Her sewing-box is her alpha and her omega, not to mention her tiny epsilon, her iota and her omicron.