Pt. I. Overview. 1. 'Those Wicked Nuns': The Forgotten Story of the Sisterhood Movement -- Pt. II. The Reality of Sisterhoods. 2. 'The Eager Life Here Just Suits Me': The Attractions of Convent Life for Victorian Women. 3. 'A Free Person in a Community of Equals': The Government and Daily Life of Sisterhoods. 4. 'We have Heads and Hands': Sisterhood Work among the Urban Working Class -- Pt. III. Popular Perceptions of Sisterhoods. 5. 'They will not Obey': The Clerical Response to Sisterhoods. 6. 'A Bombshell to Public Opinion': Popular Perceptions of Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain -- Conclusion: 'A Field Wider than Private Life': The Place of Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian History -- App. 1. Anglican Sisterhoods Established 1845-1900 -- App. 2. Parental Occupations Listed in Profession Rolls -- App. 3. The Case of a Single-Order Community: The Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage -- App. 4. Clothing and Profession Rates in Two Communities
App. 5. Rates of Growth in the First 25 Years after Founding Selected Communities -- App. 6. Professions by Decade: 1840s-1890s -- App. 7. Attrition in Communities -- App. 8. CRJBS: Convent Account for 1906 -- App. 9. The Sisters of the Church: Principal Works, as Reported to Archbishop Benson in 1894
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