Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Margery Kempe | MK
made the brief journey to Norwich to seek spiritual advice from the anchoress Julian
. This consultation brought together the two most significant women writers of the age. Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Translator Windeatt, Barry A., Penguin. 78 |
| Cultural formation | Margery Kempe | At about forty, soon after her meeting with Julian
, MK
came to crisis point in a long-term spiritual struggle. Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Translator Windeatt, Barry A., Penguin. 58, 305n1 |
| 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. 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... |
| 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... |
| Education | Iris Murdoch | During this very important year of my life Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 262 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 263 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | This moving and closely observed novel presents IM
's hallmark unforgettable moments: Dora rescuing a butterfly from the floor of a railway carriage, or flinging herself repeatedly against the lost medieval bell (now surreptitiously raised... |
| 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 |
| Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sue Townsend | ST
said the book was based partly on fantasies of withdrawal (possibly through a prison sentence) that she used to entertain as a single mother of small children, partly on the idea of Julian of Norwich |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | Mysticism aims at nothing less than providing a comprehensive description, a philosophical analysis, and also . . . a justification of these experiences, regardless of the specific cultural and historical moments in which they occur... |
| 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 |
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