Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America

by Suzanne M. Litrel, Linda R. Henderson, James D. Henderson

In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538152991
• ISBN13: 9781538152997
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary