The Company of Women

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The Company of Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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Convent of Our Lady of Sorrows. New York City convent at which five working women of different backgrounds come together on a retreat in 1932. The retreat is the creation of the dynamic priest Father Cyprian Leonard. Though he is as rigid as the church he represents, his faith and charisma endear him to the women, and they begin a lifelong devotion to him. Meeting throughout the 1930’s the women develop close friendships with one another outside of the convent, but Father Cyprian is the linchpin that holds them together.

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