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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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3 editions- Other · English · 1999Harcourt Brace · 308 pages · 9780156006590
- Other · English · 1998Ecco Press · 308 pages · 9780880015974
- Other · English · 1997Little, Brown and Co. · 308 pages · 9780316639576
Fathers and daughtersChristian women saintsFictionEnglish Religious fictionWomen saintsFiction, generalFiction, religiousFathers and daughters, fiction