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The Feast Day of Julian of Norwich: May 8 (or May 13?)

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Carl McColman
May 08, 2019
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We know the first woman who wrote a book in the English language (at least, the first one that has been preserved for posterity).

But there is a lot about that author, who lived in the fourteenth century, that we don’t know.

We know she was a visionary based in Norwich, England. But we don’t know her name, where she was from or what her family life was li…

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