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
Literary responses
Grace Aguilar
Recently, GA
's work has garnered significant critical attention from scholars Michael Ragussis
and Michael Galchinsky
, the latter of whom argues: Grace Aguilar did not resist but spoke the contradictions of her culture, and...
Textual Features
Grace Aguilar
One of her source texts was John Stockdale
's The History of the Inquisition, which like other English books on the topic was more concerned to demonstrate the dangers of Catholicism than the plight...
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Texts
Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press, 1995.
