“Because I Prayed This Word"
| Title | “Because I Prayed This Word" |
| Year for Search | 2014 |
| Authors | Macfarlane, Alex Dally |
| Secondary Title | Strange Horizons |
| Date Published | October 27, 2014 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different. |
| Additional Publishers | Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73. |
| URL | http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/because-i-prayed-this-word/ |
| Holding Institutions | Public |
| Author Note | The female author has recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford |
| Full Text | 2014 Macfarlane, Alex Dally. “Because I Prayed This Word.” Strange Horizons (October 27, 2014). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/because-i-prayed-this-word/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73. Public A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different. The female author has recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford. |
