A Foreign and Wicked Institution? Cultural studies and the people who helped

and the people who helped her and those that she helped

Growing up in Leicester

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It’s the blisteringly hot summer of 1976

A Foreign and Wicked Institution? Cultural studies and the people who helpedMany in Victorian England harboured 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 who were committed to, and engaged in, social work among the urban poor. Women, according to some of these critics, should