![]() ![]() ![]() The original manuscript does not exist anymore but survives instead through copied versions completed by scribes and preserved in private libraries until 1910 but only a single copy has survived to this day (“Julian of Norwich”). There are two versions of the text: a “Short Text” and a “Long Text.” The “Short Text” was written soon after the visions, and the “Long Text” was composed twenty years later (“About Julian of Norwich”). It details the visions she experienced while ill in bed (“Julian of Norwich”). Revelations of Divine Love, written in the 14th century by an anchoress, Julian of Norwich, is remembered today as the first work in the English language written by a woman (“Middle Ages”). Wikimedia Commons.īy Megan Lamontagne and Charlotte Schamowski “Statue of Julian of Norwich,” Norwich Cathedral, by David Holgate FSDC, 2010. 38 Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love (Selections) ![]()
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