TY  - GEN
AU  - Caroline Bowden
AU  - Laurence Lux-Sterritt
AU  - Nicky Hallett
AU  - Elizabeth Perry
AU  - Victoria Van Hyning
TI  - English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part I, vol 3
SN  - 9781040233924
PY  - 2024///0801
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource
ER  -