Convent Girls: New Zealand Women Talk to Jane Tolerton by Jane Tolerton

New Zealand Women Recall Their Convent Schooldays

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Jane Tolerton brings together New Zealand women's recollections of being educated by nuns, revealing sharply different responses to a shared kind of schooling. Some remember ritual, discipline and religious surroundings with affection, while others describe experiences that continued to trouble them long after leaving school. Contributors including Pam Corkery, Maggie Barry, Stephanie Dowrick, Paula Ryan, Catherine Saunders and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku reflect on the people, expectations and lessons that shaped their early lives. Their accounts connect everyday school memories with later questions about identity and belief. Through these candid conversations, the book explores what a convent education meant to individual women and how its influence carried into adulthood.