Julian of Norwich: England's First Woman Writer?
Gone Medieval
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Julian's Visions
Julian loses her father in the first wave of the pestilence, which as a matter of fact happened when Julian would have been seven. She says she has her visions when she was 30 and a half in May 1373, this month, 650 years ago. So I imagine her losing her father then, but we know her mother survived because she mentioned her mother in the text. And then the other thing that I have imagined for her, which seems to me to be plausible, is that she was taught to read. It's not a simple, simplistic text in any way at all. The book, the English of the book is exquisite poetry, lyrical, full of words.
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