This text looks at the identity of English women religious through the lenses of gender, class and ethnicity, offering an insight into women's religious belief and practice in the nineteenth century in light of the subsequent transformation of English society

Carmen M. Mangion is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London

Introduction
Part I: Developing identities
1. Becoming visible
2. Choosing religious life
3. Forming a novice
Part II: Working identities
4. Evangelising
5. Professionalising
Part III: Corporate Identities
6. Building corporate identity
7. Class and ethnicity
8. Authority and governance
Conclusion
Index