Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Webster, Portia
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Portia Webster
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Portia Webster was a postulant for Redwoods Monastery in California when Merton met her during his travels on the west coast. At the time, she was working at a JC Penney store in San Francisco. She was one of the people to help show him around San Francisco in his last days before leaving for Asia. She now lives as a lay hermit artist at a monastery in Arizona.