Identity area
Reference code
IE CA CP/3/197/133
Title
I leap over the wall / A return to the World after twenty-eight years in a Convent
Date(s)
- 1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
308 pp; printed
Context area
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A copy of Monica Baldwin, ‘I leap over the wall / A return to the World after twenty-eight years in a Convent’ (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950). A clipping of a review of the book taken from ‘The Tidings’ (27 January 1950) is pasted onto the inside front cover. Monica Baldwin (1893-1975) was a niece of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. She lived as a nun for twenty-eight years before deciding to leave religious life.