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Jan 1st, 2016: Anchorite
Since it’s New Years and everyone is still partying, zombified, or sleeping it off, I slip this woman in here. Julian of Norwich wrote the first published book attributed to a woman in all of English literature. She was an Anchoress (female Anchorite) in 14th century England.
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01-01-2016, 08:35 AM | #2 |
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Goddamnitall, I forgot the title., Anchorite
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Outstanding, Bruce - I really like these posts.
An autobiography written in the middle ages - without centuries of editing and layer after layer of revisions - anthropological gold. Interesting story about how the book was re-discovered. I would have cut-n-pasted it but Google Books makes that difficult. Short version: 1934: some folks in England were playing ping-pong in the basement and needed to find another ball so started poking around and in an old cupboard, came across some very old leather-bound books. Turns out one of the folks was with a museum and had them analyzed and discovered one of them was the autobiography in question. Who knows... maybe Margery nudged them to find it :-) I found an online copy of the original but its nearly unreadable - a more readable translation is on Google books .
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01-01-2016, 04:11 PM | #5 |
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What are you people doing up in the middle of the night?
Happy nude rear at ya!
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01-01-2016, 08:08 PM | #6 |
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4;11 PM is hardly the middle of the night. Bruce I think that you are confused. Happy Nude Year to you also!
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01-01-2016, 10:43 PM | #7 |
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I posted about forgetting the title shortly after the last guest left, And about middle of the night shortly before the first guests returned.
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01-02-2016, 06:55 AM | #8 |
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Neat find Bruce.
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01-02-2016, 02:57 PM | #9 |
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Wandering the interwebs there are tricky women hidden everywhere in the shadows of history. It's amazing the shit they did when they snuck out of the kitchen.
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