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• Former nuns

• The Escaped Nun: The Story of Her Life (London et al.: Cassell and Company, 1911), by Margaret Mary Moult (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Misteri del chiostro napoletano : memorie di Enrichetta Caracciolo de principi di Forino, ex-monaca benedettina. (G. Barbera, 1864), by Enrichetta Caracciolo (page images at HathiTrust)

• My life in a convent (Helen Jackson, 1925), by Helen Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Awful disclosures (Printed for the Booksellers, 1840), by Maria Monk, Rebecca Theresa Reed, William K. Hoyte, J. J. Slocum, and Theodore Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character of a convent displayed in the awful disclosures of Maria Monk, being a narrative of her sufferings, during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a Black nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal; to which is added, confirmatory notes and affidavits, facts of the present day, reviews of new works, whereby Maria Monk's disclosures are most fully proved and the hideous nature of the conventual system exposed. (Houlston & Stoneman, 1851), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hidden secrets of a nun's life in a convent exposed (Milner, 1836), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awful disclosures, by Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu nunnery of Montreal containing, also, many incidents never before published. (De Witt & Davenport, 1855), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The awful disclosures of Maria Monk. And The mysteries of a convent (T.B. Peterson, 1836), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal with additional information : to which is added, The nun, or, Six months' residence in a convent (W. Nicholson & Sons;, 1836), by Maria Monk and Rebecca Theresa Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further disclosures by Maria Monk, concerning the Hotel Dieu nunnery of Montreal also, her visit to Nun's Island, and disclosures concerning that secret retreat : preceded by a reply to the priests' book (Published for M. Monk, and sold by Leavitt, Lord, 1837), by Maria Monk and J. J. Slocum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mysteries of a convent. And The awful disclosures of Maria Monk (T.B. Peterson, 1854), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awful disclosures of Maria Monk as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal. (Howe & Bates, 1836), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awful disclosures of Maria Monk and thrilling mysteries of a convent revealed (T.B. Peterson, 1836), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character of a convent displayed in the awful disclosures of Maria Monk, being a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice and two years as a black nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal; to which is added, confirmatory notes and affadavits whereby Maria Monk's disclosures are most fully proved and the hideous nature of the conventual system exposed. (Houlston & Stoneman;, 1853), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confirmation of Maria Monk's disclosures concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal preceded by a reply to the priests' book (J.S. Hodson, 1839), by J. J. Slocum and Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decisive confirmation of the awful disclosures of Maria Monk proving her residence in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and the existence of the subterranean passages (Downfall of Babylon, 1836), by Samuel B. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confirmation of Maria Monk's disclosures concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal preceded by a reply to the priest' s book (J.S. Hodson, 1837), by J. J. Slocum and Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character of a convent : displayed in the awful disclosures of Maria Monk ; being a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice and two years as a black nun in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal ; to which is added confirmatory notes and affidavits whereby Maria Monk's disclosures are most fully proved, and the hideous nature of the conventual system are exposed. (Houlston & Stoneman, 1853), by Maria Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• A review of the awful disclosures of Maria Monk in which the facts are fairly stated and candidly examined ([s.n.], 1836), by G. Vale (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Demands of Rome: Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church, by Elizabeth Schoffen (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• These splendid Sisters (Sears, 1927), by James Joseph Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuns and nunneries : sketches compiled entirely from Romish authorities. (Seeleys, 1852), by Lewis H. J. Tonna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and organization of the monks and nuns as described in Saint Jerome's epistles (1911), by Bessie Estelle Shackell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• About monks and nuns (Catholic Truth Society, 1893), by Edward A. Foran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catecismo regular para instrucción de religiosas en su estado (Imprenta Argentina, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une héroïne du Canada Madame Gamelin et ses oeuvres ([s.n.], 1885), by H. Giroux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vies des premières Ursulines de France (s.n.], 1856), by Charles Sainte-Foi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vérité et charité : coup d'oeil sur la mission de la très révérende mère Marie de la Passion (s.n., 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice historique sur l'Institut des petites soeurs franciscaines de Marie (Maison-mère, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Angels of the battlefield a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late Civil War (Catholic Art, 1897), by George Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sponsa Christi : a portrait (Bruce, 1948), by J. E. Moffatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why is a nun? (Liguorian Pamphlets, Redemptorist Fathers, 1959), by M. J. Huber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discouraged, Sister? (St. Anthony Guild Press, 1954), by Alphonsus Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What makes a woman choose such a life? (Knights of Columbus, Religious Information Bureau, 1951), by Knights of Columbus. Religious Information Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• It could be you! : steps to a religious vocation : in three parts (St. Anthony Guild Press, 1962), by Sister Mary Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie de la mere Marie de l'Incarnation : institutrice & premiere superieure des Ursulines de la Nouvelle France. (A Paris : Chez Ant. Claude Briasson, ruë Saint Jacques, près la Fontaine S. Severin, à la Science, MDCCXXIV [1724], 1724), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix and Antoine-Claude Briasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida y sucessos de la Monja Alférez, per otro nombre Da. Catarina de Arauso, de estado honesto, natural de San Sebastian, Provincia de Guipuzcoa (in the 18th century), by Catalina de Erauso (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Rev. Mother Mary Teresa Comerford : foundress of the convents of the Presentation Order on the Pacific Coast and the missionary novitiate, Kilcock, Ireland. (P.J. Thomas, 1882), by Josephine Hagerty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pearl of Troyes, or, Reminiscenses of the early days of Ville-Marie revealed to us in the heroic life of Sister Marguerite Bourgeoys, foundress and first superior of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, established at Ville-Marie in the year 1653. (s.n.], 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois foundress of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame, established at Montreal, Canada, 1659 (D. & J. Sadlier, 1886), by Religieuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• A la pieuse mémoire de la Très Révérende mère Marie de la Rédemption, supérieure générale des Franciscaines missionnaires de Marie, 1860-1917 (Impr. franciscaine missionnaire, 1919), by comtesse de Loppinot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century (G.N. Morang, 1899), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lettres de la Venerable Mere Marie de l'Incarnation premiere superieur des Ursulines de la Nouvelle France divisées en deux parties. (Chez Louis Billaine, ..., 1681), by mère Marie de l'Incarnation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sister Simon's Murder Case (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., 1959), by Margaret Ann Hubbard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Priest and Nun ("with a valuable appendix by the publishers"; Philadelphia: Crittenden and McKinney; Springfield, MA: D. E. Disk and Co., c1869), by Julia McNair Wright (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• St. Ursula's Convent, or, The Nun of Canada: Containing Scenes From Real Life (2 volumes in 1; Kingston, ON: H. C. Thompson 1824), by Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Almost a nun. (Presbyterian publication committee ;, 1868), by Julia McNair Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nun (M. Baker, 1834), by Mary Martha Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Agnes (Riker, Thorne, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secrets of the convent and confessional : an exhibition of the influence and workings of papacy upon society and republican institutions (National Pub. Co., 1873, c1872., 1873), by Julia McNair Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of a Portuguese nun. (T.B. Mosher, 1905), by Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado, and Thomas B. Mosher (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lady of the abbey (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1926), by George A. Birmingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nun of St. Ursula, or, The burning of the convent. A romance of Mount Benedict. (F. Gleason, 1845), by Harry Hazel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pelicans, by E. M. Delafield (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of the Lady Betty Stair, by Molly Elliot Seawell, illust. by Thure de Thulstrup (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived, by Ronald Firbank, illust. by Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Legend of Sister Beatrix, by Charles Nodier, trans. by Michael Wooff (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mariquita: A Novel, by John Ayscough (Gutenberg ebook)
• La religieuse (in French), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Jules Assézat (Gutenberg ebook)

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