nunnery

There's a bench on Nunnery Lane where Ashraf died.

She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the opportunities reserved for monks.

Her father was out of the picture and her mother, a Parisian courtesan, had shuttled her daughter around France — to a boarding school, a countryside nursery, a nunnery.

Though they were obedient, “occasionally a note of bitterness crept out,” Hadlow said, citing letters the sisters wrote to each other marked “the nunnery.”

“If you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model! Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent. They’re recruiting even!”