title: Secrets of a Nun: My Own Story
author:  Elizabeth Upton 
description: ELIZABETH UPTON is the author of The Shaman and the Mafiaavailable on Amazon in paperback and Kindle e-book. She is also the author of several other fiction and non-fiction titles. She received a BA from Syracuse University and an MA from Chapman University in psychology. For over thirty years she has served as a family counselor, social worker, and probation officer working with troubled teens and abused children. Elizabeth is married and lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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  # Brought Home
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Hesba Stretton
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. UPTON RECTORY
  
  
  CHAPTER II. ANN HOLLAND
  
  
  CHAPTER III. WHAT WAS HER DUTY?
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. A BABY'S GRAVE
  
  
  CHAPTER V. TOWN'S TALK
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE RECTOR'S RETURN
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. WORSE THAN DEAD
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. HUSBAND AND WIFE
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. SAD DAYS
  
  
  CHAPTER X. A SIN AND A SHAME
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. LOST
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. A COLONIAL CURACY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. SELF-SACRIFICE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. FAREWELLS
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. IN DESPAIR
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. A LONG VOYAGE
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. ALMOST SHIPWRECKED
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. SAVED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  BROUGHT HOME.
  
  
  BY
  
  
  HESBA STRETTON.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. UPTON RECTORY
  
  
  
  
  
    
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