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The anchoress /

"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the p...

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Main Author:	Cadwallader, Robyn (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Young women > England > Fiction. Monasticism and religious orders for women > Fiction. Hermits > Fiction. Great Britain > History > 13th century > Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Literary. Hermits. Monasticism and religious orders for women. Young women. England. Great Britain. 1200 - 1299 Historical fiction. Fiction. History.
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