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In Our Convent Days

Chapter 1: IN OUR CONVENT DAYS
By Agnes Repplier
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A series of affectionate, lightly comic memoir sketches recalling childhood at an old-fashioned girls’ convent school, alternating anecdote and reflection. The narrator evokes chapel rituals, Sunday walks, amateur theatricals, small acts of rivalry and friendship, and the vivid imagination that transformed routine into adventure. Interwoven essays observe institutional changes and the uneasy contrast between nostalgic memory and modern conveniences. The tone moves between playful observation and quiet meditation, rendering communal life, religious practice, and youthful intensity in concise, intimate vignettes.

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Title: In Our Convent Days

Author: Agnes Repplier

Release date: October 8, 2017 [eBook #55703]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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IN OUR CONVENT DAYS. 16mo, gilt top, $1.10, net. Postage extra.

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THE FIRESIDE SPHINX. With 4 full-page and 17 text Illustrations by Miss E. Bonsall. 12mo, $2.00, net. Postage 14 cents.

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IN OUR CONVENT DAYS

IN OUR
CONVENT DAYS

BY

AGNES REPPLIER, Litt.D.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905

COPYRIGHT 1905 BY AGNES REPPLIER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Published October 1905

To “Elizabeth” Robins Pennell

“Thou know’st that we two went to school
together.”

Julius Cæsar