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  2. The Poor Clare (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words , [ 1 ] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story [ 2 ] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.

  3. Mary Bonaventure Browne - Wikipedia

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    Celsus O'Brien quotes the Poor Clare Annalist: "The Third Abbess of said Convent, Mary Bonaventure (alias) Browne, was a very good holy and perfect religious Sister, and was endowed with many rare virtues, as obedience, poverty, chastity, humility and charity. She was prudent and wise, well spoken in English, Irish and Spanish.

  4. Category:Poor Clares - Wikipedia

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    Poor Clare monasteries (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Poor Clares" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  5. List of Dickensian characters - Wikipedia

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    Scrooge, Ebenezer Miserly main character in A Christmas Carol, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley and three ghosts of Christmas. Sikes, Bill is a villain and a thief in Oliver Twist. Skimpole, Harold is the indebted and foolish friend of John Jarndyce in Bleak House. His character is based on the critic and essayist Leigh Hunt.

  6. Louisa Jaques - Wikipedia

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    On September 1, 1936 she joined the Poor Clares in Evian as a postulant, but remained only until April 10, 1937, when the mentally ill abbess dismissed her. After this upsetting convent experience, Louisa worked temporarily as a nanny in Lausanne with a working-class family which had six children, and then again with Countess Agliardi in ...

  7. 25 ‘Non-Nepo’ Celebrities Who Grew Up In Poverty ... - AOL

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    Image credits: NBC / Getty #2 Selena Gomez. Selena’s mother, Mandy, had her at sixteen years old. The Only Murders in the Building star recalls having to search for quarters to pay for gas ...

  8. Cecily Dillon - Wikipedia

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    Dillon was one of their 19 children, including her brothers Lucas Dillon and James Dillon. Along with her older sister, Eleanor, Dillon was one of the first Irishwomen to join the English Poor Clares at Gravelines in Flanders. Dillon professed as Sister Cecily of St Francis on 8 September 1622. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Meet the Cast and Characters of ‘Uglies’ - AOL

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    His movie roles include Straight Outta Compton, Before I Fall, and The Tomorrow War. On TV, he’s appeared in Pretty Little Liars, Faking It , and The New Edition Story . Instagram: @keithpowers