The action of Beatrice takes place in Rome between 303 and 305 A.D.. The novel is a historical fictionalisation of the Christian persecutions of the Diocletian
era, using the martyrdom story of the eponymous heroine...
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Mary Deverell
The title poem relates a story of female heroism: of an early Christian woman first sent to a brothel and then martyred under the Emperor Diocletian
. The martyr's dying speech tells those who survive,...
