Friday, September 5, 2008

Lieutenant Nun

Lieutenant Nun
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto

Foreword by Marjorie Garber

The memoir of a 16th century Basque woman who escaped a convent dressed as a boy became a soldier in the Spanish army, killed her own brother, and managed to become the darling of the Pope and the Spanish-speaking world.
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