Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Clemence of Barking
Standard Name: Clemence of Barking
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Late twelfth century: A nun named Clemence, who identified herself...
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Late twelfth century
A nun named Clemence
, who identified herself as living at Barking in Essex, composed an Old French, verselife of St Catherine of Alexandria
, taken from an elaborately literary Latin original.