| LC control no. | n 88073717 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beckett, Wendy |
| Variant(s) | Wendy, Sister בקט, ונדי Sister Wendy |
| See also | Employer: University of the Witwatersrand |
| Associated place | Cape Town (South Africa) Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Located | Quidenham (England) |
| Birth date | 1930-02-25 |
| Death date | 2018-12-26 |
| Place of birth | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Place of death | East Harling (England) |
| Field of activity | Monasticism and religious orders for women Art criticism Art |
| Affiliation | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Profession or occupation | Nuns Television personalities |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her Contemporary women artists, 1988: t.p. (Wendy Beckett) p. 15 (intro signed from Quidenham, 1987) pub. info. (Carmelite nun) John, Abbot of Ford. Sermons on the final verses of the Song of Songs, 1977-1984: v. 1, t.p. (translated by Wendy Mary Beckett) p. 64 (translator's pref. signed from Quidenham, a Carmelite convent) Pains of glass, 1995: t.p. (Sister Wendy Beckett) Beckmann and the self, 1997: CIP t.p. (Sister Wendy Beckett) data sheet (b. 1930) Sister Wendy's story of painting, c1997. New York times, December 26, 2018 (online), viewed on December 26, 2018: obituaries, article "Sister Wendy Beckett, nun who became a BBC star, dies at 88" (died Wednesday [December 26] in East Harling, England, at 88; confirmed by the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, England, where she lived for decades; hosted several BBC television documentary series on art beginning in 1991; authored about 25 books, including collections of poetry and meditations; Wendy Mary Beckett; born in Johannesburg on February 25, 1930; at 16, joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as Sister Michael of St. Peter; later became Sister Wendy; studied literature at Oxford in the early 1950s; returned to South Africa, where she taught for 15 years at a Cape Town convent and later lectured at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand; returned to England in 1970) <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/obituaries/sister-wendy-beckett-dead.html> BBC news UK (online), viewed on December 26, 2018: article "Sister Wendy Beckett, TV art historian, dies at 88" (died at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham; returned to South Africa in 1954 to teach) <https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46687275> |
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