Lieutenant Nun Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto Foreword by Marjorie Garber The memoir of a 16th century Basque woman who escaped a convent dressed as a boy became a soldier in the Spanish army, killed her own brother, and managed to become the darling of the Pope and the Spanish-speaking world.