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Captivity, Freedom, and the New World Convent: The Spiritual Autobiography of Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart

[W]hat we accomplish in this new Church is seen by God and not by men; our enclosure covers all, and it is difficult to speak of what one does not see.

Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart, Letter to her son, 9 Aug. 1668

(Word from New France 337)

Working within convent walls in seventeenth-century Quebec, Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart recognized her invisibility and generated a vast body of literature that reveals the extent of her spiritual and physical trials as a religious woman and early colonist. Her narratives of travel, frontier life, and encounters with native peoples paradoxically emerge from her seclusion as a cloistered nun, locating the convent at the center-not the periphery-of ...

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