{"product_id":"9781772121230-the-woman-priest","title":"The Woman Priest","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, La femme abbé\u003cbr\u003eFirst translation of French novella (1801) about passion, social convention, obsession, and despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes—I feel this in the purity of my intentions.” —Agatha, writing to Zoé\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest—a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal’s epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in La Nouvelle France, which became part of British-run Canada during Maréchal’s lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal’s novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women’s studies, and religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57676595298678,"sku":"9781772121230","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41037318_cde2ad5d-96a2-4a0d-8114-5c34e197a291.jpg?v=1777018850","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781772121230-the-woman-priest","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}