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Woodston, it is implied, is where Henry is the incumbent local clergyman. The reason, confirmed later, he can still make Northanger half his home, and spend many weeks in Bath, is that he has a curate, a clergyman hired by the incumbent to perform some or all of the work in the parish. Many clergymen hired curates, in part because the abundance of
... See moreDavid M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
A private world of women, guarding their sanctuary. Nuns in sackcloth living in huts near a riverbank. That’s what it reminds him of.
Thomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
Indoors, the church was a patriarch. But outside? The earth seemed like a mother.
Sarah James • Most Honored Greening Force: Contemplative Ecology and the Living World
ecclesiastical
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
"It will be like a nunnery under an abbess—a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood."
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
two big sisters; but as Pauline seemed so far away
de Lisieux Thérèse • The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse
She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Sister Eliza