Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de ErausoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A brief and fascinating account, via court ordered autobiography (One of the earliest known by a woman) of Catalina de Erauso. This early 17th Century Basque adventurer and free spirit escaped from a convent dressed as a man and went on to live as a New World soldier in the Spanish army, gambler, and mistakenly killed her brother in a duel. After her truth being discovered, she became famous in Spanish-speaking world. This very natural translation of her audacious escapades includes a helpful, context-setting foreword by Marjorie Garber that compares the transvestism and passing of adventurous women to tales of Shakespeare and other historical cases.
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