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Birkbeck College
Contested identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales
A significant monograph, using primary source material from seldom used archives. It situates women religious in the various overlapping networks they were part of: ecclesiastical, familial, social and educational. It has been reviewed extensively and declared ‘a towering achievement of modern scholarship, fusing gender, cultural, social and religious history in a beautifully written book…’ (Susan Mumm, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario) and pronounced ‘essential reading for those interested in the history of women religious, the history of women, the history of education and the history of religion (Tom O’Donoghue, The University of Western Australia).