A Foreign and Wicked Institution?

Many in Victorian England harbored deep suspicion of convent life. In addition to looking at anti-Catholicism and the fear of both Anglican and Catholic sisterhoods that were established during the nineteenth century, this work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were comitted to social work among the urban poor. Women, according to some of these critics, should remain passive in matters of religion. Nuns, however, did play an important role in many areas of life in nineteenth-century England and faced hostility from many who felt threatened and challenged by members of female religious orders. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.

About the author

Fr. Rene Kollar is a Benedictine monk and a Professor of History at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English ecclesiastical history.

Product details

• Authors: Kollar, Rene Kollar
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2011
• EAN: 9781498252645
• ISBN: 978-1-4982-5264-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 616 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works