---
title: 'The Lay Sister'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1870-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'Non-Christian Religions and Beliefs'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 10'
- 'Matthew 23'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1870-the-lay-sister
---

# The Lay Sister

1870 short story "The Lay Sister": a wounded man is captivated by a convent lay sister, sparking romance, conflict over conversion, and a father's shock when his daughter is a nun.

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