Robin Cross and Rosalind Miles, Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism, 2011.Ĭhristel Mouchard, Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950, 2007.įaith S. Sherry Velasco, The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso, 2000. Sonia Pérez-Villanueva, The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography, 2014.Įva Mendieta, In Search of Catalina de Erauso: The National and Sexual Identity of the Lieutenant Nun, 2009. Heidi Zogbaum, Catalina de Erauso: The Lieutenant Nun and the Conquest of the New World, 2015. Joaquín María de Ferrer, The Autobiography of doña Catalina de Erauso, 1918 (translated by Dan Harvey Pedrick). Sources for our feature on Catalina de Erauso: In 1856 the Saturday Review asked: Why do ghosts wear clothes?īecause of the peculiarities of bee reproduction, the population of each generation is a Fibonacci number. We’ll also hunt for some wallabies and puzzle over a quiet cat. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll tell the story of Catalina de Erauso, the lieutenant nun of Renaissance Spain. In time she would distinguish herself fighting as a soldier in Spain’s wars of conquest in the New World. In 1607, a 15-year-old girl fled her convent in the Basque country, dressed herself as a man, and set out on a series of unlikely adventures across Europe.
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