The locked-down anchoress: Beth Allen on Julian of Norwich

‘I’ve found that her way of life was very familiar.’

by Beth Allen 10th December 2021

In these last two years many of us have lived shut away, enclosed in a few rooms, unable to go out because we are vulnerable to Covid infection. I haven’t been able to get to the library, so instead I’ve been re-reading the books I already have. This is how I’ve rediscovered the writings of Julian of Norwich, and I’ve found that her way of life was very familiar.