My 2nd Great Grandmother immigrated to the United States from Czech with her spouse in the year 1884. I found that she was a former Roman Catholic Nun while in the old country. She had a very progressive ideology and even written a book expressing that ideology. I know she belonged to two Catholic convents and kicked out of one. I have been wondering if she was forced to be a nun? If so, was this a common practice with woman of this time period? Just knowing about her progressive views didn't fit a career has Roman Catholic Nun.

Note, that she was only a Nun in Czech and not in the United States. Her book wasn't written until she immigrated to the United States.