Diversity Book Club: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Schedule
Thu, 10 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
10 High Street, HP5 1EP Chesham, United Kingdom | Chesham, EN
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In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
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10 High Street, HP5 1EP Chesham, United Kingdom, 10 High Street, Chesham, HP5 1EP, United Kingdom,CheshamEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
