Maria and the Bellasis Family

Maria Bowring the eldest child of John Bowring well known Victorian polititian and statesman chose to spend the last years of her life in a Catholic Convent in London as an annuitant. In this book through her contacts with the Bellasis family a very highly regarded Catholic convert family which included two priests and three nuns and other well known people of the time such as Florence Nightingale we get a picture of what her life might have been like.