George Moore’s tenth novel Sister Teresa (1901) finishes the story of his ninth Evelyn Innes (1898).
Here the heroine leaves family, friends and career to join a Passionist convent in Wimbledon, not far from her bohemian childhood home in Dulwich and lavish Park Lane apartment.
As a postulant Evelyn attracts fame and fortune to her convent with singing during public masses. She relieves the community of onerous debt and seems to ensure its survival as a contemplative order. But even cloistered life is complicated.
Complications of her ego in a culture of self-abnegation test her religious faith and understanding of life’s purpose. She is a brave, imaginative, and ambitious woman who has turned her back on the world. Does God have a place for her?
Since George Moore variously viewed Roman Catholicism with fascination, critical sympathy and a jaundiced eye, there are no easy answers or dramatic epiphanies. Instead, Sister Teresa examines the intimate conflicts of a woman seeking spiritual transcendence without losing her identity.
Solemn, searching, and psychologically acute, Sister Teresa explores belief as lived experience — uncertain, demanding, and deeply human.
Chapters
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Preface
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 1
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 2
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 3
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 4
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 5
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 6
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 7
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 8
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 9
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 10
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 11
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 12
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 13
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 14
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 15
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 16
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 17
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 18
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 19
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 20
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 21
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 22
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 23
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 24
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 25
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 26
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 27
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 28
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 29
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 30
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 31
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 32
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 33
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 34
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 35
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 36
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 37
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 38
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 39
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 40
8 July 1901 — Sister Teresa — Chapter 41
Sister Teresa (AI)
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