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"The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheaval In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women--even the privileged few who can read and write--have little independence. In The Butcher's Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country...
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"A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl's desperate choice to isolate herself from the world England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world,...
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Criterion collection volume 93
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Criterion Collection
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2010
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English
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A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
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2020.
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"Lovaina, comienzos del siglo XIII . En una floreciente comunidad de beguinas -mujeres laicas que decidian vivir juntas apartadas de los hombres, consagradas a sus labores intelectuales y al cuidado de los desamparados- una serie de muertes alteran repentinamente la paz. El primer asesinato parece accidental, pero el segundo ya muestra claras senales de ensanamiento y llama rapidamente la atencion de la Inquisicion, que lleva tiempo buscando una excusa...
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