All posts by Diane Watt (58)

• Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438), mystical writer, visionary and pilgrim

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  May 8, 2025

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• Marie de France (fl.1160-1208), poet and translator

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  April 1, 2025

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• Katherine Sutton (fl. 1358–1377) , the first named English woman playwright

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  March 28, 2025

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• Hild of Whitby (c.614 to c.680), literary patron

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  March 26, 2025

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• Julian of Norwich (1343-after 1416), mystical writer and the first woman writer in English

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  March 19, 2025

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• Leoba (c. 710 –782), the first named English woman poet

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  March 18, 2025

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• The Winchester Anchoress (fl. 1422), visionary writer

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  February 25, 2025

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• Juliana Berners (fl. 1460?), writer of a treatise on hunting

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  February 24, 2025

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• Margaret Paston (c.1421-1484), letter writer

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  February 7, 2025

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• New Project: Mapping Medieval Women Writers

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  January 24, 2025

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