Ebook
The Poor Clare
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The Poor Clare
- Author
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Series
- Timeless Classics
- Language
- English
- Length
- 66 pages
- ISBN
- 9781911495109
- Published
- 25 June 2016
- Imprint
- Sovereign
- novella
- religious devotion
- sacrifice
- duty
- faith
- nuns
- convent
- English countryside
- love
- commitment
Description
Margaret Dawson enters a Poor Clare house with a vocation and a farmer she still loves. Gaskell’s novella is convent life as a real climate — Sister Monica, doubt, the Rule against the pulse. Sovereign ebook. Love, sacrifice, duty that will not stay simple. Not anti-Catholic cartoon, not hagiography. A woman testing whether the call was louder than the field. English countryside, a habit, a friendship inside the walls. Short fiction of a choice that keeps asking.