First Woman To Publish A Book In English
In England, from about the 12th to the 16th century, an estimated 780 people chose to live permanently shut up in a room attached to a church. They were called anchorites, from a Greek word meaning to “withdraw,†and most of them were women. They left little record of their lives behind, and they’re little remembered today. One of them was Julian of Norwich (pictured), who wrote the first published book attributed to a woman in all of English literature.
