I, Julian - Claire Gilbert
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Emma Fowle2023-05-02T10:53:00
Julian of Norwich’s 15th-century classic, Revelations of Divine Love, is widely regarded as the earliest manuscript written in English by a woman. But beyond that text, little is known about the remarkable woman who lived as an anchoress (or hermit) bricked into a small cell on the side of St Julian’s church in Norwich.
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