The Tall One Author:Barbara Jefferis The high spirited, joyous tale of the liberation of a medieval woman-Chaucerian in it's color and vitality. — As a child Mary Mary's only distiction was that she was taller than anybody else, and she lived poorly in the hovel of her villein father. Even her maidenhood she lost to her twin brother,Dikon,before she was knew it's value. Yet at eig... more »hteen-or maybe twenty-she had become her own woman, possessor of house and land,child and money. In between she had been many other things- serving maid to the lady of the manor,mistress of a surgeon-alchemist-astrologer, wife to a dwarf, fortune teller in a travelling circus, even a probationer in a nunnery.« less