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Maude Petre

  • True confession consists in telling our deed in such a way that our soul is changed in the telling of it.

    • Maude Petre,
    • "Devotional Essays," in The Method of Theology ()

Maude Petre, English writer, critic, Roman Catholic nun

(1863 - 1942)

Full name: Maude Dominica Mary Petre.