A Fair Penitent

A Fair Penitent is a short story based on conversion of religion and nuns life written by William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for his masterpieces The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

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Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He prospered sufficiently well, as a literary man, to be made secretary to the French Academy, and to be allowed to succeed Voltaire in the office of historiographer of France. He has left behind him, in his own country, the reputation of a lively writer of the second class, who addressed the public of his day with fair success, and who, since his death, has not troubled posterity to take any particular notice of him.