The Three Marias -- New Portuguese Letters
Barreno, Maria Isabel / Horta, Maria Teresa / Velho Da Costa, Maria Fátima
New Portuguese Letters is one of the great works of modern women's literature. This erotic, lyrical and profound novel of women's experience is the product of a creative alliance among three writers, all feminists, all named Maria, all mothers, all educated by nuns. The Three Marias take as their inspiration the seventeenth-century European classic Letters of a Portuguese Nun, five passionate missives supposedly written by Sister Mariana Alcof...