Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 101-24.
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Julian of Norwich
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Standard Name: Julian of Norwich
Self-constructed Name: Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
was a religious visionary whose experiences of the divine came to her in the later fourteenth century. She was also something that no Englishwoman had been before her: the author of a treatise offering spiritual guidance to others which achieved wide currency.
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| Textual Features | Winefrid Thimelby | Latz also finds her style to be poetic, reflecting the influence of mystics like St Augustine
and Ruysbroeck
(whose work was later translated and discussed by Evelyn Underhill
); Thimelby quotes and cites these two... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Atwood | The story focuses on three women: Toby (who loses her loving, low-ranking parents to the system, survives sexual violence, and becomes a not wholly believing member of a sect of ecologists or nature-worshippers calling themselves... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Holland | Dorothy L. Latz
notes that CH
reflects no influence of the Jansenism
which was current during her lifetime. Her theology stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature. Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997. 26 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
| Textual Features | Jane Lead | She said she wrote for all Ranks, Orders, and Degrees of Persons, from the highest to the lowest. Lead, Jane. A Fountain of Gardens. Printed and are to be sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1697–1701, 4 vols. 3: 1, A2r |
| Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | EL
also wrote two one-act morality plays: her Christmas Morality Play was published by E. Mathews
in 1908, and Dame Julian
's Window was produced by the Morality Play Society
at London's Little Theatre
on... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
wrote several biographical articles on religious figures, including St Paul
, Julian of Norwich
, Angela de Foligno
, Kabir
, St Thérèse of Lisieux
, and Devendranath Tagore
(father of poet Rabindranath Tagore |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | Lucy Cary | Anne Cary (Dame Clementina in religion)
, was a writer like her sister LC
, in devotional modes. She compiled instructions for mental prayer and for Divine Office, and devotions from Dom Augustine Baker
... |
| Textual Production | Monica Furlong | The second was The Wisdom of Julian of Norwich, a compilation from Julian
's Revelations of Divine Love (written from February 1393). This appeared in a series, Visionary Women, of which MF
was general editor. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | MF
images these women, active between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries, as a wave, slow and tentative at first, rising to a crescendo with Julian of Norwich
, the one who speaks most clearly... |
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