Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. Joan was seventeen when she took command…
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Saint Joan of Arc
Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices.
Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
In a clever, brisk voice, Vita Sackville-West tells the triumphant story of a French peasant girl raised in a country torn apart by the Hundred Years' War who rose from poverty to military greatness. With dazzling insight and clarity, Sackville-West breathes new life into Joan of Arc's beautiful and tragic story.