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The she-apostle : the extraordinary life and death of Luisa de Carvajal / Glyn Redworth.

Author: Redworth, Glyn.

ImprintOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Imprint2008

Descriptionx, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Note:Introduction: the last house in London -- A Carvajal and a Mendoza -- Blessed discipline -- Toledo street -- "Sweet manacles" -- New ways of living -- Generation of vipers -- The she-apostle -- The most extraordinary journey -- Treason and plot -- Carrots, capons, and plague -- Grand India -- Sovereign virgin -- Broken English -- Fashionable and modest -- Pears and The Last Supper -- Oran -- The siege of Spitalfields -- Afterword -- Appendix: three poems.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263--268) and index.



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Redworth, Glyn.
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Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, 1566-1614.
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Catholic women -- Spain -- Biography.
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