Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man by Catalina de Erauso

Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man

Catalina de Erauso with Michele Stepto (Translator), Gabriel Stepto (Translator)

79 pages • first pub 1829 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history lgbtqia+ adventurous reflective fast-paced
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One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in histo...

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