Lives of spirit English Carmelite self-writing of the early modern period (Ashgate, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index
The inspiration to compose: burial in oblivion and the miraculous discovery of an incorrupt body -- Anne of the Ascension, first prioress at Antwerp -- Teresa of Jesus Maria, sister of Anne of the Ascension: her career and remarkable death -- Margaret of St Francis: the holy simplicity of a lay sister at Antwerp and Lierre -- Anne of St Bartholomew: her sight of the infant Jesus handing out sugar-plums, and the remarkable discovery of her uncorrupted body -- Catherine of the blessed sacrament: the vocation of a 'poor imperfect religious' who relished patched clothing -- Anne of St Teresa: her career at various convents, her terror about an apparition and her instructions for the enclosure of a convent -- Agnes of St Albert: her overwhelming sense of vocation that lead her to break into the convent -- Clare of the annunciation and Delphina of St Joseph: two religious linked by marvellous events --
- Anne of St Maria and Tecla of St Paul: childhood friends in religion, one a favourite of the king -- Anne of the angels: her grand entrance and clothing -- Paula of St Joseph and Alexia of St Winefrid, two of Anne Somerset's entourage: a sudden death whilst whitewashing and the life of a little mouse -- Anne of St Bartholomew and Mary Teresa of Jesus: their entries at an advanced age -- Francisca of the blessed sacrament; her near abduction as a child and her later seduction by witchcraft -- Mary Frances of St Teresa: the instigator of the Antwerp lives, a treasure of the community, drawn to her vocation by Reading -- Teresa Joseph of the sacred heart of Jesus: her father, like a jealous lover, reists her Teresian vocation -- Clare Joseph of Jesus Maria: her dreams and spiritual favours; and her appearance to another religious in a vision -- Mary Margaret of the angels: her conversion from Protestantism by reading books of controversy; and her death from gangrene --
- Winifred of St Teresa: her miraculous recovery as a child; her life and death as a lay sister -- Anne Maria Joseph of St Xaveria: the widowed sister of Catherine Burton -- Mary Joseph of St Teresa: the life and death of the first compiler, who knew her vocation at a country dance and who left loving instructions for her sisters
Teresa de Jesus and Ann Joseph of the Ascension: two lives of mutual care -- Mary Magdalen of St Joseph: her dramatic journey from Maryland, her Teresian vocation, and her cure from rheumatism -- Mary Xaveria of the angels: her mental affliction in which she fancied herself to be a priest and excommunicated the bells -- Mary of St Barbara: the life of an Oblate from the coffee-house -- Angela Maria of St Joseph: her early life in which she almost dies of malnutrition; and her seduction to become a Carmelite after which she once drank her own urine in an act of misplaced obedience -- Mary Margaret of the angels: her journey from Maryland in which she almost falls in love with a young gentleman; her burial as the convent is threatened by imperial edict -- Mary Xaveria of the angels: her illness, miraculous cure and her spiritual favours before and after death -- Mary Margaret of the angels: the discovery of her incorrupt body and the writing of her life --