The Art Historian's Nun

In last week's London Telegraph, art historian and nun Sister Wendy Beckett is profiled: "Sister Wendy Beckett, 80, is a contemplative nun who gained national attention in 1991 after appearing in a BBC documentary about the National Gallery. She has since presented several acclaimed art-history programmes and has written more than 25 books. Her most recent, Real Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons (Continuum), is out now. For the past 40 years she has lived a cloistered life, devoted to prayer, in a mobile home in the grounds of a Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk." (Read All)