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Impossible saints

by Michele Roberts

Fathers and daughtersChristian women saintsFictionEnglish Religious fictionWomen saintsFiction, generalFiction, religiousFathers and daughters, fiction

A novel on our civilization's earliest liberated women, female saints. The heroine is St. Josephine, a not-so-saintly noblewoman who becomes a nun to avoid marriage, which would entail being told what to do by a man.

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Book data: Open Library