![]() The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments - but always in the name of love. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. ![]() Among them is 16-year-old Teagan Tiernan, sent by her family when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Some inmates are "fallen" women - unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. ![]() Within the gated grounds of the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city's Magdalen Laundries. ![]()
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