biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1585–1645)
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| biography:
| English religious reformer, the founder of a religious society for women. She entered a convent (1606), but rebelled at the enclosed life and set up a society modelled on the Jesuits to provide education for women (1609). Although her work was not questioned, her rejection of the enclosed cloister was, and Pope Urban VIII eventually called her to Rome and suppressed her society in 1630. She was allowed to return to England in 1639 and re-open her houses on modified lines. Her institute was fully restored, with papal permission, in 1877, and became the model for modern Catholic Women's Institutes. |
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