Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 213. Not illustrated. Chapters: American Nuns, Anglo-Saxon Nuns, Belarusian Nuns, Belgian Nuns, Chinese Nuns, English Nuns, German Nuns, Indian Nuns, Irish Nuns, Italian Nuns, Lebanese Nuns, Polish Nuns, Romanian Nuns, Russian Nuns, Ukrainian Nuns, Welsh Nuns, Eadburh of Winchester, Agatha, Wife of Edward the Exile, Brigid of Kildare, Andrea Jaeger, Saint Alphonsa, Hilda of Whitby, Maria Skobtsova, Princess Ileana of Romania, Eanflaed, Mary Bonaventure Browne, AEbbe of Coldingham, Domne Eafe, Sister Boom Boom, Anna of Kashin, AElfthryth, Wife of Edgar, Osgyth, Werburh, Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Feliksa Koz owska, Breage, Saint Walpurga, Emma Crawford, Saint Faber, Leoba, Prema Vakayil, Saint Ita, Cynthia L. Mahoney, Mary Gabriel Martyn, Margaret Hallahan, Mary Elizabeth Clark, Wihtburh, Euphrosyne of Polatsk, AEbbe the Younger, Colleen Mccabe, Frances Margaret Taylor, Mary Juliana Hardman, Josaphata Hordashevska, Xenia Shestova, Mary Clare Kennedy, Margherita Marchione, Adela and Irmina, Marie Keyrouz, Saint Canna, AElfflaed of Whitby, Begu, Modwenna, Uliana of Tver, Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, Everilda, Lettice Mary Tredway, Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross, Mildburh, Gertrude of Aldenberg, Empress Hu, Saethryth, Mildgyth, AEthelburh of Faremoutiers, Edburga of Bicester, Alyona, Landrada, Thecla of Kitzingen, Stanis awa Umi ska. Excerpt: Agatha was the wife of Edward the Exile (heir to the throne of England) and mother of Edgar AEtheling, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Cristina of England. Her antecedents are unclear, and subject to much speculation. Nothing is known of her early life, and what speculation has appeared is inextricably linked to the contentious issue of Agatha's paternity, one of the unresolved questions of medieval genealogy. She came to England with her husband