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"Top Girls" by Caryl
Churchill
What is the dinner scene
about?
Who is Caryl Churchill?
Women in the Workforce - Good or
Bad?
Who is Isabella Bird?
Who is Lady Nijo?
Who is Dull Gret?
Who is Pope Joan?
Who is Patient Griselda?
Where can I find more
information?
Pope Joan
The character Pope Joan a legendary female who is thought to have disguised herself as a man and served as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church between 854 and 856. Joan, who was English, disguised herself as a man and fled to Athens to study with her lover when she was 12. After her lover, a Benedictine monk, died, she became a priest, then a cardinal soon after. She succeeded Pope Leo IV as Pope, and had a new lover, a cardinal. She became pregnant, and the people found out that she was a woman, stoning her to death.
