Governess. Jane Eyre is a governess at Thornfield Hall in Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre".
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Convent, Cloister, or Nunnery
A nun lives in a monastery while a sister may live in a convent.
Monastery, abbey, convent, nunnery, priory, cloister.
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"I go to the cloister to read because I find it peaceful."Cloister:N.1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.2.a. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.b. Life in a monastery or convent.3. A secluded, quiet place.
There are a few which come to mind. In the monastic/convent tradition, mother superior, abbess, sister, novice for the divisions in the hierarchy of a convent or cloister. Deaconess is in common use in the Presbyterian tradition.
In the olden days, nuns were safely cloistered behind high convent walls, protected from the outside world.
In generic terms applicable to males and females, you can refer to them as cloistered, or living in a cloister. The Shakespearean "Nunnery" is more often referred to as a convent. If the convent is run by an Abbess (a particular rank of the sisterhood) it can be referred to as an Abbey.
Ephrata Cloister ended in 1934.
Ephrata Cloister was created in 1732.