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Championing feminism through a mediaeval nun
In this week's edition of Book Box, The Sunday Times looks at new works that draw on the classics, giving timeless stories a fresh resonance
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Olivia Ho Assistant Life Editor, Olivia Ho
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Amid the hue and cry of Mr Donald Trump's presidency of the United States, Lauren Groff decided to retreat into a feminist utopia. Specifically, a mediaeval nunnery.
In her new novel Matrix, the American author imagines the life of Marie de France, an obscure 12th-century poet known for her Breton lais - short narrative poems - and pictures her as the radical prioress of an English abbey.
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