The Magdalen
Convents
Dublin (ireland), fiction
Unmarried mothers
Pregnant women
Female friendship
Fiction, psychological
Friendship, fiction
Social conditions
Fiction, general
History
Fiction
Betrayed by her lover and rejected by her family, a pregnant Esther Doyle is sent to join the fallen women of Dublin's Holy Saints Convent, where she spends her time working in the Magdalen laundry while awaiting the birth of her baby.
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