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THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM

Pages
382
Published
1948
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel chronicles the lives of a community of nuns in a medieval English nunnery through decades of change and challenge. From the Black Death to the Great Schism, the women navigate their faith, daily routines, and personal relationships. It offers a quiet yet profound look at endurance and the human spirit within the confines of a religious order.

About the author

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a highly individual writer of novels, short stories and poems. She contributed short stories to the New Yorker for more than forty years, translated Proust's Contre Saint-Beuve into English, wrote a biography of the novelist T.H.White and a guide to Somerset. ([Source][1].) Here's the Townsend Warner's bibliography for her: http://www.townsendwarner.com/bibliography.php I wonder if Open Library can match it! [1]: http://www.townsendwarner.com/biography.php