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

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

Few people know of Augusta Drane but she was a fascinating figure. She wrote a two-volume biography of a saint in six weeks and abhorred the idea of marriage.

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