The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets
, who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme
when both were...
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By late November 1956: Kathryn Hulme published her best-seller The...
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By late November 1956
Kathryn Hulme
published her best-seller The Nun's Story, about a Belgian woman whose years as a nun included nursing in the then Belgian Congo, but who finally left her Order to return to the world.
Freeman, Gwen. “Conflict of Loyalties”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2856, 23 Nov. 1956, p. 695.