In the early 1100s, a brilliant young woman named Heloise learned Latin, Greek, and maybe Hebrew in Paris before having a child with her teacher and secretly marrying him. After her husband (Peter Abelard) was castrated by her uncle, she joined a convent, and eventually became the leader of several convents. She was famous for her erudition, and her letters present a different view of her marriage than Abelard's whinging (while critical of #marriage as an institution.) #WomensHistoryMonth
31/?