Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Developing identities -- Becoming visible -- Choosing religious life -- Forming a novice -- Part II: Working identities -- Evangelising -- Professionalising -- Part III Corporate identities -- Building corporate identity -- Class and ethnicity -- Authority and governance -- Conclusion -- Appendix: sources and methods -- Select bibliography -- Index
Summary
This text looks at the identity of English women religious through the lenses of gender, class and ethnicity, offering an insight into women's religious belief and practice in the nineteenth century in light of the subsequent transformation of English society
