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Duc Dau, Honorary Research fellow, The University of Western Australia

Hidden women of history: 19th-century author Augusta Drane was an intellectual ‘warrior nun’. Was she queer?

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Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader, published works including poetry, histories, essays and biographies. Impressively, Drane wrote her two-volume life of St Catherine of Siena in a matter of six weeks. The book was the most complete life of the saint in any language and was translated into German and French.

Yet few people these days know Drane’s name.

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