Winefrid Thimelby
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Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century
expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of her convent, a form of women's history. She was well versed in the theology of
and
, and although living and writing at a time of Jansenism, she stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature.- BirthName: Winefrid Thimelby