![]() ![]() ![]() After making a full recovery, she wrote an account of each vision, producing a manuscript now referred to as the Short Text. ![]() Whilst she was seriously ill, and believing to be on her deathbed, the visions appeared to her over a period of several hours in one night, with a final revelation occurring the following night. Julian, who lived all her life in the English city of Norwich, wrote about the sixteen mystical visions or "shewings" she received in 1373, when she was in her thirties. It is also the earliest surviving work written by an English anchorite or anchoress. It is the earliest surviving example of a book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. It was written between the 14th and 15th centuries by Julian of Norwich, about whom almost nothing is known. ![]() Revelations of Divine Love is a medieval book of Christian mystical devotions. ![]()
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