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Ten of the best nuns in literature
At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best nuns in literature.One nun on the list:Denis Diderot's Suzanne SimoninDiderot's The Nun presents the fictional letters of a young woman forced into a convent by her parents. Suzanne tries to be a good Christian, but is tortured by her fellow nuns and finds herself the object of attention for a sexually predatory mother superior. No way out!Read





