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Its several dozen short prose works and two free verse poems transcend prose grammar by allowing their words to drift away from their dictionary definitions. Now, hildegard is free to fulfill her destiny, which she first fully realized at the age of 42, as a writer, healer, composer and abbess. Mary sharratt is an american writer who lives with her belgian husband in the pendle region of lancashire, england, the setting for her acclaimed 2010 novel, daughters of the witching hill, which recasts the pendle witches of 1612 in their historical context as cunning folk and healers. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Mary sharratt mariner a notsomusical account of the fascinating life of the composing nun.
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