14 Facts About Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett was born in Johannesburg in the Union of South Africa, but was later raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, where her father was studying medicine.

Wendy Beckett was sent to England where she completed her novitiate and then studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was awarded a congratulatory first class honours degree in English literature.

From childhood Wendy Beckett suffered from a weak heart and later had to give up teaching, after having epileptic seizures brought on by stress.

Wendy Beckett obtained papal permission to leave her congregation and to become a consecrated virgin and hermit.

Wendy Beckett began living in a caravan on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk, and her caravan was later replaced by a mobile home.

Wendy Beckett spent many years translating Medieval Latin scripts before deciding, in 1980, to pursue art.

Sister Wendy Beckett Contemplates Saint Paul in Art was published in 2008 to celebrate the Year of Saint Paul.

Beckett continued writing about her interest in icons in the second volume of her Sister Wendy Contemplates series, published in July 2011.

Wendy Beckett required medical treatment as an outpatient at a local hospital.

Smith drove her around the country to meet the artists when Wendy Beckett was writing her book about contemporary women artists.

Wendy Beckett was often effusively verbal in her descriptions of the human body in paintings, both male and female.

In December 2012 Sister Wendy Beckett was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

In 1993, Sister Wendy Beckett recorded an abridged audio version of Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich.

Wendy Beckett died on 26 December 2018 at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk.