Unconventional WomenThe lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval. In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, whom they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office, and the