Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6th, 1412; Burned as a Heretic, May 30th, 1431; Canonised as a Saint, May 16th, 1920

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. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. 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 nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. 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.

Author: Vita Sackville-West
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 05/16/2001
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.02w x 1.08d
ISBN13: 9780802138163
ISBN10: 0802138160
BISAC Categories:
– Biography & Autobiography | Religious
– Biography & Autobiography | Women
– Religion | History