Caroline Bowden, Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Nicky Hallett, Elizabeth Perry, Victoria Van Hyning

• Acknowledgements, Notes on the Text, Introduction, Select Bibliography, Part I: Reading and Writing Lives The Life of Margaret Clement, The Life of Leonor de Mendanha (edited by Elizabeth Perry), The Life of Maria Maddelena de Patsi, The Life of Lucy Knatchbull, Obituaries from the Benedictine Convent in Brussels, Obituaries from the Benedictine Convent at Pontoise, Chronicle of the Poor Clares at Gravelines: ‘Of the sickness of divers of the religious’, Part II: Vocation, Arrival, Clothing and Profession Chronicle of the Poor Clares at Gravelines: ‘Of their removing from St Omers’ and ‘Of the cloathing & noviship of the fi rst eight that were admitted’, The Clothing of Mary Percy and Dorothy Arundell: ‘They came apparelled then as nonnes’, Profession Certificates from Brussels and Lisbon, Part III: Daily Lives, Editorial Notes