Impossible saints
By: Michèle Roberts
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780880015974
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Christian women saints; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Little, Brown, 1997.