Bøger af Dianne Dugaw

The winner of the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, this beguiling, poetically drawn memoir of the author's early years as a nun in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, by Dianne Dugaw, provides a pastoral and moving ode to the cloistered world with vespers and Beatles tunes for a soundtrack.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations make inspirational and compelling reading.

This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature.

Dianne Dugaw's book documents the flourishing of the female warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.