"To Foreign Climes Unknown Before / E'en to Amerique's Distant Shore" The Mission to Establish the First Women's Convent in the Original United States, Told in Carmelite Poetry.

When Carmelite nuns from Europe crossed the Atlantic in the late eighteenth century to found the first women's convent in the original United States, they brought with them a poetic tradition that can be traced back to the founder of the reformed Carmelite order, Saint Teresa of Avila. In poems that...

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Published in:	Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 173 - 195
Main Author:	HANNA, DANIEL J.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2020
Subjects:	Carmelites Convents Nuns Christian poetry English poetry Religious poetry Teresa, of Ávila, Saint, 1515-1582 Monasticism & religious orders for women Maryland state history, 1775-1865
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