Julian of Norwich’s Timeless Message

Julian of Norwich Stained Glass, Norwich Cathedral. Photo by Ian-S, used by permission.

We know the first woman who wrote a book in the English language (at least, the first one that has been preserved for posterity).

But there is a lot about that author, who lived in the fourteenth century, that we don’t know.

We know she was a visionary based in Norwich, England. But we don’t know her name, where she was from or what her family life was like. We can only guess at her education or when she d...