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