Lieutenant nun : memoir of a Basque transvestite in the New World / Catalina de Erauso ; translated from the Spanish by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto ; foreword by Marjorie Garber.
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Pe...
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| Other title: | Historia de la Monja Alférez. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Boston, MA :
Beacon Press,
c1996.
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