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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

1654; letters to 1671

French

The Relation of 1654 and the Letters

Marie of the Incarnation · 1599–1672

A widow who left her son to enter a convent, then sailed to Quebec to found a school, writing home about mystical states, Iroquois raids, and Algonquian grammar.

Western · AutobiographyRead elsewhere