Rachel Denton, mentioned in entries here in 2009 and 2013, is a Catholic hermit, formerly a teacher and once a Carmelite nun.A canonical hermit, she lives alone in Lincolnshire, now complicated by cancer. Several media profiles (Independent, Daily Mail) describe her use of social media, supplementing a modest income from calligraphy. Referring to her health, the 52-year-old Rachel says “It was interesting when I got cancer because you make a bucket list and my bucket list was to spend my life as a hermit.”
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269366/I-hermit-m-human-Reclusive-former-nun-says-social-media-internet-shopping-make-shunning-human-contact-easy.html#ixzz3sEBSBTDb;
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tech/meet-the-52-year-old-modern-hermit-whos-living-in-solitude-with-twitter-facebook-keeping-her-company-1151297.html;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sister-rachel-denton-why-i-founded-a-one-nun-hermitage-a6706916.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/11/16/inside-the-life-of-a-modern-day-hermit/