The Company of Women

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The Company of Women (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

The Story:

Part 1, 1963. Fourteen-year-old Felicitas Maria Taylor traveled with her mother, Charlotte, to Orano, in western New York State to meet Elizabeth, Clare, Mary Rose, and Muriel for a summer retreat. Since meeting in 1932, the women had made this retreat every year under the guidance of the Roman Catholic priest, Father Cyprian, who conducted retreats for working women.

Felicitas believed she had to lie to her friends about how she spent her summer vacations because her friends were interested in “TV doctors” and would not understand the pleasure she...

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• Mary Gordon (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Mary Gordon (Short Fiction)
• Mary Gordon (Long Fiction)