Tag: nuns

• Frost in May

  Virago Modern Classic Number 1: This is the 1991 edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen. The cover shows a detail from Girl and Flowers by Dod Procter.  Antonia White’s Frost in May, as I’m sure everyone knows, was the very first Virago Modern Classic, published in 1978 after being out of print for many years. I’m not sure why…

  chrisharding53

  August 19, 2015

  20thC fiction, Antnia White, convent school, Frost in May, nuns, Virago Modern Classic, women’s fiction

• Saturday Snapshots of a Gateway to the Past

  Polesworth Abbey Gatehouse This gatehouse is virtually all that remains of Polesworth Abbey, and I can never pass it without thinking of the nuns who walked beneath it when the were forced to leave during the dissolution of the monasteries. For some of the women it would have been the only home they had ever…

  chrisharding53

  June 23, 2012

  Dissoluion of the Monasteries, Henry VIII, nuns, Polesworth Abbey, Saturday Snapshots