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• Beguines -- History
• Monastic and religious life of women -- History
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• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- France -- History
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Russia (Federation) -- Kalinin -- History
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Russia (Federation) -- Suzdalʹ -- History

• Woman's work in the church : historical notes on deaconesses and sisterhoods (Alexander Strahan, 1866), by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mönche des Abendlandes : vom h. Benedikt bis zum h. Bernhard (G. J. Manz, 1866), by Charles Forbes Montalembert and Karl Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)
• Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (University Press ;, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman under monasticism; chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500. (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Lina Eckenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500, by Lina Eckenstein (Gutenberg ebook)

• Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (University Press ;, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Annales de l'Ordre de Ste-Ursule formant la continuation de l'histoire générale du même institut depuis la révolution française jusqu'à nos jours, précédées d'un abrégé historique des premiers temps de cet ordre, recueil puisé dans les chroniques et les annales particulières de chaque communauté : avec une préface par M. Charles Ste-Foi. (s.n.], 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annales de l'Ordre de Ste-Ursule formant la continuation des annales du même institut depuis 1856 jusqu'à nos jours ; avec une préface par le R. P. Colombier. (s.n.], 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Regula beati Augustini episcopi patris nostri cum expoxicione Ugonis de Sancto Victore ([Italy, 1450), by of Saint-Victor Hugh, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Saint Augustine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Sotheby's (Firm), and Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arkhiv Novotorzhskago voskresenskago zhenskago monastyri︠a︡ (Tip. I. P. Krylova, 1910), by Tverskai︠a︡ uchenai︠a︡ arkhivnai︠a︡ komissīi︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Anfänge der Beginen ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Volksfrömmigkeit und des Ordenswesens im Hochmittelalter (Aschendorff, 1912), by Joseph Greven (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les béguines de Paris ([s.n.], 1893), by Léon Le Grand (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535 (Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1922), by Eileen Power
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• Notice sur la congrégation des filles du Saint-Esprit, 1706-1850. (L. & R. Prud'homme, 1888), by Charles Lemercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535, by Eileen Power (Gutenberg ebook)

• Regola data da Sant'Agostino alle monache. (s.n., 1846), by Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notice biographique sur la Révérende Mère Barat fondatrice de l'Institut des religieuses du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus. (s.n.], 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Heroines of charity : containing the sisters of Vincennes, Jean Biscot, Mlle. Le Gras, Madame de Miramion, Mrs. Seton, the Little Sisters of the Poor, etc., etc. (P.J. Kenedy, 1904), by Aubrey De Vere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American foundresses (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Joseph Bernard Code (page images at HathiTrust)

• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
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• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Harriet Monsell : a memoir (E.P. Dutton, 1884), by Thomas Thellusson Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mémoire historique sur l'abbaye de Baume-les-Dames. (Turbergue et Jacquot, 1845), by Mgr. Besson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notices sur les établissements religieux anglais, écossais et irlandais : fondés a Paris avant la Révolution (H. Champion, 1910), by Georges Daumet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Suzdalʹskīĭ Rizpolozhenskīĭ zhenskīĭ monastyrʹ : istoriko-arkheologicheskoe opisanīe : v prilozhenīi arkhivnye akty monastyri︠a︡, zhitīe pr. Evfrosinīi po spisku XVII vi︠e︡ka i opisanīe minīati︠u︡r (Izd. Igumenii Serafimy, 1900), by V. Georgievskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suzdalʹ7skīĭ Rizpolozhenskīĭ zhenskīĭ monastyrʹ : istoriko-arkheologicheskoe opisanīe (Izd. igumenīi Serafimy, 1900), by V. Georgievskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Women of the Cell and Cloister (London: Methuen and Co., c1913), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645) (2 volumes; London: Burns and Oates, 1882-1885), by Mary Catharine Elizabeth Chambers, ed. by Henry James Coleridge
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  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The ancren riwle; a treatise on the rules and duties of monastic life. (The Camden Society, 1853), by James Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recluse; a fourteenth century version of the Ancren riwle (Printed by H. Ohlsson, 1911), by Joel Påhlsson and Pepys Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancren riwle; a treatise on the rules and duties of monastic life. (AMS Press, 1968), by James Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The education of sisters (Sheed and Ward, 1941), by Betrande Meyers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Catholic sisterhoods in the United States. (Catholic University of America Press, 1955), by Thomas Patrick McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La condvite canoniqve de l'eglise povr la reception des filles dans les monasteres. (Chez la veuve Charles Savreux., 1670), by Antoine Arnauld and Godefroy Hermant (page images at HathiTrust)
• What must I do? (Bruce, 1950), by Mary Paul Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• These splendid Sisters (Sears, 1927), by James Joseph Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Catholic sisterhoods in the United States. (Catholic University of America Press, 1958), by Thomas P. McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Catholic sisterhoods in the United States. (Catholic University of America Press, 1952), by Thomas P. McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• I leap over the wall; contrasts and impressions after twenty-eight years in a convent. (Rinehart, 1950), by Monica Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Buddhistische non geschetst naar gegevens der Pali-literatuur. (E.J. Brill, 1915), by Maria Elisabeth Lulius van Goor and Apadāna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women of the cell and cloister (Methuen & co., ltd., 1913), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginie de Leyva; ou, Intérieur d'un couvent de femmes en Italie au commencement du dix-septième siècle, d'après les documents originaux. (Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1861), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seelenleitung, Beichte und Kommunionempfang in Frauenklöstern und den übrigen religiösen Genossenschaften mit Laienoberen (Friedrich Pustet, 1909), by Cornelius M. Rechenauer, Secondo Franco, Catholic Church. Pope (1903-1914 : Pius X), Catholic Church. Congregatio Episcoporum et Regularium, and Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nun : her character and work (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1920), by Etienne Lelong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nun, her character and work (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1914), by Etienne Lelong and Madame Cecilia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Convent life, or, The duties of sisters dedicated in religion to the service of God : intended chiefly for Superiors and Confessors, with commentary on the Decree "Quemadmodum." (R. Washbourne, 1897), by Arthur Devine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Franciscan nuns, 1619-1821, and the Friars Minor of the same province, 1618-1761 (Privately printed for the Society by W. Pollard & Co., Exeter, 1922), by Richard Trappes-Lomax (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religious orders; or, Sketches of some of the orders and congregations of women. By the author of "Eastern hospitals", etc. etc. (Burns and Lambert, 1862), by Mary Magdalen Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianisme et culture féminine (Perrin, 1914), by Lucie Félix-Faure Goyau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancren riwle; a treatise on the rules and duties of monastic life. Edited and translated from a semi-Saxon ms. of the thirteenth century. (The Camden society, 1853), by James Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• These are our religious : a genealogy (Lith-O-Grafters, 1962), by Helen Linenberger Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nun's rule : being the Ancren riwle modernised (A. Moring, 1905), by Francis Aidan Gasquet, James Morton, and Richard Poore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rights and duties of the local Ordinary regarding congregations of women religious of pontifical approval (Catholic University of America Press, 1941), by Benjamin F. Farrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Regla de nro. gran padre San Augustin, doctor de la iglesia : y constituciones, o Manual de las monjas del orden de Sr. Sto. Domingo de Guzman: que en esta reimpression costèa la provincia de Andalucia, del orden de Predicadores, este año de 1765 (Imp. de F. Sanchez reciente, 1765), by Dominican Nuns of the Second Order of Perpetual Adoration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Formulaire de prières à l'usage des pensionnaires des religieuses ursulines. (Chez Jacques Lecoffre, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les vestales de l'Église (chez tout les libraires, 1877), by Marie Amelie Chartroule de Montifaud Quivogne de Montifaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maria Monk's daughter an autobiography (United States Pub. Co., 1875), by L. St. John Eckel Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maria Monk's daughter an autobiography (Published for the author by the United States Pub. Co., 1874), by L. St. John Eckel Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noces d'or de l'Institut des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie à Hochelaga récit des fêtes de l'année jubilaire décembre 1894-décembre 1895. (s.n.], 1895), by Louis Joseph Paul Napoléon Bruchési (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noces d'or des enfants de Marie du Sacré-Coeur, 8 septembre 1846 -8 septembre 1896 (s.n., 1896), by Société des enfants de Marie du Sacré-Coeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cérémonial des Soeurs des SS. Noms de Jésus et de Marie, Hochelaga, Montréal (s.n.], 1877), by Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur la Congrégation des Filles de la Sagesse fondée par le Bienheureux L.-M. Grignion de Montfort. (s.n.], 1905), by Filles de la Sagesse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Religieuses Franciscaines : notices sur les diverses congregations de soeurs du Tiers-Ordre Régulier de Saint-François établies actuellement en France, avec divers appendices ... (Lib. Ch. Poussielgue, 1897), by Norbert de Laissac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic nuns (Duckworth, 1898), by Bessie Rayner Belloc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barbora Ubryka arba klioštorius ir Jezuitai ; pagal oficialius rekordus ([s.n.], 1919), by William Lloyd Clark and Antanas J. Karalius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of the Sisters of Mercy (Catholic Publication Society Co., 1881), by Austin Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mission of the contemplative orders. (Monastery of the Poor Clares, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istoriia pravoslavnago monashestva na Vostokie (s.n.], 1854), by Petr Semenovich Kazanskii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on communities of women and monastic institutes (Printed and sold by J. Poole, 1815), by Friend of Religious and Civil Liberty and Charles Leonore Premord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priest and woman : a book for wives, mothers, and daughters (Wm. Lloyd Clark, in the 1910s), by Wm. Lloyd Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Catholic sisterhoods in the United States. (Catholic University of America Press, 1953), by Thomas P. McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Martyrs of the Sacred Heart : a commemorative story of Catholicity in the South Sea Isles and a synoptic sketch of the founding, development and American achievements of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart (Dolphin Press, 1934), by Leo Gregory Fink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ze života Americke jeptišky sl. Edity O'Gormanove jinak sestry Teresy de Chantal : z klaštera sv. Josefa v Hudson City, N.J. ; Sepsala sama. Přeložil T. Vonašek. (Nakladem Aug. Geringera, 1900), by Edith O'Gorman and T. Vonasek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Each hour remains (Newman Press, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les servantes de Dieu en Canada : essai sur l'histoire des communautés religieuses de femmes de la province (Des Presses à vapeur de John Lovell, rue St. Nicolas, 1855), by Henri de Courcy and John Lovell (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les moines d'Orient antérieurs au Concile de Chalcédoine (451). (H. Oudin, 1900), by J. M. Besse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour. (At Douay : By the Widdow of Marke VVyon, M. DC. XLIV [1644]), by Third Order Regular of St. Francis and Angelus Francis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A serious proposal to the ladies. Part II wherein a method is offer'd for the improvement of their minds. (London : Printed for Richard Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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