Finally, in 1976, a physician recognized her epileptic seizures for what they were and put her on appropriate medication. Fainting spells while still in the convent progressed to episodes of amnesia and panic attacks, which led to years of useless sessions with psychiatrists, anorexia, even a suicide attempt and hospitalizations. Litt., but failed to obtain a doctorate, and then as a teacher in a private girls’ school in London, a position from which she was dismissed after a few years, she was what can best be described as an emotional wreck. First as a student at Oxford, where she earned a B.A. Now, to describe the turnings her life took as she struggled to find her way in a secular world, Armstrong ( Islam, 2000, etc.) adopts the image of a spiral staircase as a symbol of spiritual progress in T.S. An introspective, decidedly un-cheery work that seeks to set the author’s record straight.Īfter Armstrong wrote an account of her seven years as a Catholic nun ( Through the Narrow Gate, 1981), she followed it up with a cheery but admittedly untruthful memoir depicting her new life outside the convent ( Beginning the World, 1983).
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