Monica Baldwin

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Monica Baldwin (1893-1975), English writer, and a niece of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.

She entered religion in 1914, a few months before the beginning of the Great War. After twenty-eight years in an enclosed convent, she left on 26 October 1941, during the Second World War.

In 1949, she published a memoir, I Leap Over The Wall: A Return to the World after twenty-eight Years in a Convent. She relates how she could not recall reading a newspaper during the entire course of the First World War. When she entered, the popular use of telephones, cinema and radio were in their infancy. When she left they were common in England. The book is a memoir of some of the contrasts of life in and out of an enclosed convent.

Her novel, The Called and the Chosen was published in 1957. In the 1960s she lived on Alderney in the Channel Islands. She died in 1975.