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• The Beguines and Beghards in Medieval Culture, With Special Emphasis on the Belgian Scene (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1954), by Ernest William McDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Beguines and Beghards in Medieval Culture, With Special Emphasis on the Belgian Scene (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1954), by Ernest William McDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• 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)

• Affidavit of Maria Monk's Mother (ca. 1835), by Isabella Mills (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Awful Exposure of the Atrocious Plot Formed by Certain Individuals Against the Clergy and Nuns of Lower Canada, Through the Intervention of Maria Monk (New York: Printed for Jones and Co. of Montreal, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further Disclosures By Maria Monk, Concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal Also, Her Visit to Nuns' Island, and Disclosures Concerning That Secret Retreat: Preceded By a Reply to the Priests' Book (New York: Pub. for M. Monk, 1837), by Maria Monk and John Jay Slocum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography (New York: United States Pub. Co., 1875), by L. St. John Eckel Harper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The True History of Maria Monk (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1895) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Awful Exposure of the Atrocious Plot Formed by Certain Individuals Against the Clergy and Nuns of Lower Canada, Through the Intervention of Maria Monk (New York: Printed for Jones and Co. of Montreal, 1836) (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)

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

• Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535 (Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1922), by Eileen Power
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• The White Sister, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (c2002), by Jacqueline Zuzann Holler (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts, by Edith Stein (HTML in Austria)

• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust