Forgotten Women [in Convents] 1938 First Edition by Sister Mary Ethel ~ Catholic Nun Expose ~ Girls in Religious Life
Title: Forgotten Women
Author: Sister Mary Ethel [Helen Conroy]
Description: First Edition. Black faux-leather card wraps with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket spine is chipped and toned; shows wear along fore-edges; in an archival mylar sleeve. Frontispiece portrait of author. 124 pages.
An uncommon first edition in dust jacket. Written by Helen Conroy/Sister Mary Ethel (b. 1890, Ireland), a former nun who had spent seven years in convents in England, France, and Burma, before coming to the United States in 1918. Forgotten Women is a critical examination of the exploitive and problematic nature of convents, and particularly for young girls. It was later reprinted in the 1946 with the title ''Forgotten Women in Convents.
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Printed by Boise Valley Herald
Place: Middleton, Idaho
Year: 1938
Keywords: nuns, convents, monasticism, Catholic, anti-Catholic, anti-monastic, religious life,
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