{"id":12368,"date":"2019-05-12T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2019-05-12T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:34:17","slug":"a-gimlet-eye-beneath-a-chapel-veil-my-tribute-to-antonia-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2019\/05\/a-gimlet-eye-beneath-a-chapel-veil-my-tribute-to-antonia-white.html","title":{"rendered":"“A Gimlet Eye Beneath a Chapel Veil”: My tribute to Antonia White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at the University Bookman:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work to-day to turn out, not accomplished young women, nor agreeable wives, but soldiers of Christ, accustomed to hardship and ridicule and ingratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

These words express the mission of the Convent of the Five Wounds, where nine-year-old Nanda Grey is sent shortly before World War I. Nanda, the daughter of a recent convert to Catholicism, plunges eagerly into the world of the Five Wounds\u2014a world where the only storybooks allowed are martyrs\u2019 lives (\u201cthe pressing to death of the Blessed Margaret Clitheroe had nearly turned her sturdy stomach\u201d), and the pupils do penances so God will make them victorious against their hockey rivals.<\/p>\n

Frost in May<\/em>, Antonia White\u2019s novel drawing on her own convent education in the years leading up to World War I, layers satire, anguish, and tenderness with exceptional delicacy. The school novel is always a novel of the gap between what\u2019s taught and what\u2019s learned. The faith of the Convent of the Five Wounds is sentimental, it\u2019s cruel, it turns truths into propaganda and breaks children\u2019s spirits in the name of humility. And yet it\u2019s also beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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at the University Bookman: \u201cWe work to-day to turn out, not accomplished young women, nor agreeable wives, but soldiers of Christ, accustomed to hardship and ridicule and ingratitude.\u201d These words express the mission of the Convent of the Five Wounds, where nine-year-old Nanda Grey is sent shortly before World War I. 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