One of these tales, entitled The Escape, features Almah, a Jewish wife in Portugal who cross-dresses in order to infiltrate the Inquisition
and engineer the escape of her husband, who has been betrayed and...
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Grace Aguilar
The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition
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Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Owenson's hero here is Hilarion, a Portuguese nobleman turned monk and missionary; her heroine is Luxima, Princess of Cashmire, whose rank also brings her an important Hindu religious function. Hilarion goes to India seeking the...
