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Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sac...

Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

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Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

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Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

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Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing

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2024

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English

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Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing

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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 Offic...

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Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

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TN_cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC31591886

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC31591886

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9780522880403,0522880401,0522880398,9780522880397

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