Radagunda Roberts
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In the twenty years from 1763, The Lady's Magazine, and issued a volume of similar material and a verse tragedy. Her most unusual work was a volume of sermons, titled thus because a male friend had offered to preach what she wrote.
published four significant translations from French (all but one of them fiction). She contributed tales in both prose and poetry to - BirthName: Radagunda Roberts Her very unusual Christian name comes from De excidio Thuringiae, strikingly describes the sufferings of women in times of violence.of Poitiers, a sixth-century Thuringian princess who has a chapel dedicated to her in Gloucester Cathedral. A historian observes that Radegund's life invites a feminist reading. From childhood a pawn in male politics, she was subjected to forced marriage to a suspected murderer; after fifteen years she escaped him to enter a convent, which she then made famous and powerful by acquiring a relic: part of the True Cross. She achieved her own empowerment largely by letter-writing. Her most famous work, the verse
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- Indexed: Rose RobertsMarijn S. Kaplan wrongly calls her Rose.