The Butcher's Daughter

Agnes Peppin is the daughter of a butcher. As a young girl she makes a mistake. She meets a boy and becomes pregnant. Having disgraced her family, she is sent to Shaftesbury Abbey to have her child and then become a nun. She is lucky. The only reason she is accepted at Shaftesbury is because her mot......more

Glendinning brings formidable background in Tudor society to this novel, told through the life of a butcher's daughter, sent through a family favor to live in Shaftesbury Abbey after a sexual indescretion. Discovering a love of reading and cloistered life, her future shatters on the Reformation diss......more

The Butcher's Daughter, by Victoria Glendinning, is literally a story of a country butcher's daughter, Agnes Peppin. The year is 1535 and Agnes is forced to leave her family home in disgrace, and her parents send her to be a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey. For Agnes, this is not a punishment. She has a ro......more

Agnes Peppin is shipped off to be a nun after falling pregnant with an illegitimate child. She adjusts to life in Shaftesbury Abbey when Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell initiate the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Life changes for all those used to living as a Bride of Christ. This was a good piece o......more