A collection of school memories from award winning Australian writers spanning several generations.
Complete with extraordinary photographs, including images of the nineteenth century nuns' silk bonnets to the simple gray dresses of the Sisters of Social Service, this evocative narrative explores the timeless symbolism of the habit and ...
Centering on a small town rife with secrets and propelled by a twisting-and-turning plot, Himself is a gem of a book, a darkly comic mystery, and a beautiful tribute to the magic of language, legacy, and storytelling.
We know very little about Sister Mary Bernard Deggs herself, but her history of the early years of the Sisters of the Holy Family, written more than a century ago and reproduced here in edited form, makes it clear that today's community of ...
... pants until I was confirmed— and then, I was only allowed to wear the suit once. The school was in walking distance from our new home. Our church was on the same block as the school. All seemed to be going according to plan until, one ...
... Do ye wear silk knickers and flaunt yerself loik a jezebel? Do ye trollop yerself down Montgomery Street takin proid ... nuns to take care of ye. You must go to live with them as a boarder and hope that they can reform ye.' So I was sent ...
When Antony's brother - in - law , who came to be known as Augustus Caesar , made himself a military dictator under the pretext of restoring the republic , he launched an elaborate program of renewing the old ancestral ways , including ...
This is a story of all the girls, but particularly three who enter, live, stay-in and leave religious life for various reasons.
The Role of the Nun in Nineteenth Century America
Blazers, Badges and Boaters: A Pictorial History of School Uniform