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Kathleen Jones.
Women Saints: Lives of Faith and Courage.

Published Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1999.
ISBN 0860122816;
ISBN-13: 9780860122814.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: MPG, Bodmin.
Size: 152x232x17mm.
Page count: ix,310pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused, but with some warehouse damage: the book has been stored in damp conditions, so there is some mild staining to the page edges and internally a slight wobble to the pages.


This item £4.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 475g.

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Provides biographical essays on 40 women saints over a wide chronological range, from early Christianity to the 20th century, organised under the following headings: Visionaries; Martyrs; Collaborators; Wives & mothers; Penitents; Outcasts; Innovators; Missionaries.
Appendices: Women in male dress; "Invisible" women; Out of the cloister — Mary Ward.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 35, monochrome
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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See also | Hagiography | Women’s studies |

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