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The Eagle and the Dove

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Eagle and the Dove

By Vita Sackville-West

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About the book

The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: 'the great' and 'the little'. Both women were Carmelites, both canonised and both shared the same name. But whilst Teresa of Avila was aristocratic, intellectual, vigorous and humorous, a Spanish woman of the sixteenth century, Therese of Lisieux was a guileless and sentimental figure of the French bourgeoisie. Teresa, the great mystic, is the patron saint of Spain; Therese...Show more

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9781784873523

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Vintage Publishing

Published year

2018

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The Eagle and the Dove

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