Erauso, Catalina De: Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

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Erauso, Catalina De : Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

Beacon Press, Boston, 1996

ISBN 0807070726

80pp. Translated by Michele and Gabriel Stepto Born in 1585, Catalina de Erauso led one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. Refusing to be regimented into the quiet habits of a nun's life, she escaped from a Basque convent at age fourteen dressed as a man, and continuing her deception, ventured to Peru and Chile as a soldier in the Spanish army. After mistakenly killing her own brother in a duel, she roamed the Andean highlands, becoming a gambler and a killer, and always just evading the grasp of the law, Thin 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ

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