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  • Claire_Gilbert
    Real Life

    Writing about Julian of Norwich helped me through cancer

    2023-05-16T16:09:00Z

    It is 650 years since Revelations of Divine Love, the first book to be written in English by a woman, was published. As Claire Gilbert reflects on losing her mother as a child, battling cancer and living through the Covid-19 pandemic, she finds Julian’s writings are as relevant today as they were six centuries ago