Unconventional Women
The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia
$37.59
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior.
By the late 1960s, this community of women was upended by the reforms of the Second Vatican Coun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522880397 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522880398 |
| Author: | Sarah Gilbert |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 3mm x 23mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and oral historian from Sydney. She began her career as a copy girl at News Ltd before moving to New York where she worked as a feature writer at the New York Post. She returned home to work as a reporter in current affairs television, but soon moved Argentina where she wrote for Lonely Planet and Time Out.
Sarah’s writing has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Wall Street Journal and Marie Claire. She works as a writer/producer across documentary film, television and podcasting, with a particular focus on Australian history, and she is the books columnist at Galah magazine. Sarah lives in Darlinghurst with her husband and their two children.
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