![]() ![]() Indeed, her Revelations of Divine Love (or Showings) was the first book to be written in English by a woman. Since the 20th century, Julian of Norwich has become perhaps the best known of all the medieval mystics writing in English. She has been a spiritual companion ever since. There I bought a small anthology of her writings and was immediately drawn to her emphasis on love, her acknowledgment of the feminine aspect of God and her sheer common sense. ![]() I found myself embraced by its deep and tender silence. I was intrigued enough by the footnote to remember the name when, a few years later, I was sent on pastoral placement to Norwich and on a day off sought out her ‘cell’. I first encountered English mystic, theologian and anchorite Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1417) as a literature student through her line quoted in TS Eliot’s 1942 poem ‘Little Gidding’: ![]()
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