Part 1 Overview: those wicked nuns - the forgotten story of the sisterhood movement. Part 2 The reality of sisterhoods: the eager life here just suits me - the attractions of convent life for Victorian women; a free person in a community of equals - the government and daily life of sisterhoods; we have heads and hands - sisterhood work among the urban working classes. Part 3 Popular perceptions of sisterhoods: a bombshell to public opinion - popular perceptions of sisterhoods in Victorian Britain; they will not obey - the clerical response to sisterhoods; a field wider than private life - the place of Anglican sisterhoods in Victorian history.
Susan Mumm teaches at the Faculty of Arts at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK.
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