In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, h
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her fam
Recounts how the author's experience with severe postpartum depression prompts her investigation of a family mystery involving her great-grandmother's imprisonm
Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions
Marie de l'Incarnation (1599 - 1672), renowned French mystic and founder of the Ursulines in Canada, abandoned her son, Claude Martin, when he was a mere eleven