searching for women's lives around the margins of the scholarship, methods for organizing research, and three opportunities to write together this spring
Several years ago I was reading an article about Hildegard of Bingen, and it mentioned that she might have been enclosed with an anchoress as a child. This led me to look up what the heck an anchoress is, the logistics of life enclosed in a cell, why someone (especially a woman, especially around the time Hildegard lived) would choose such a life…and now my novel about a medieval girl enclosed with an anchoress, and the present-day professor studying them, will publish in November! All because I stumbled on a random factoid in a random article (and, a factoid that may not even be true!)
Love this, Nancy. I agree so much with your querying of biographical accounts of Alice as the so-called 'difficult first wife' who impedes the man's genius. Really looking forward to the book, and glad to have her life highlighted. Cambridge University wasn't the end of her story!
very here for this wives content
they're *so* fascinating, and I can't wait to talk about them so much more!
Several years ago I was reading an article about Hildegard of Bingen, and it mentioned that she might have been enclosed with an anchoress as a child. This led me to look up what the heck an anchoress is, the logistics of life enclosed in a cell, why someone (especially a woman, especially around the time Hildegard lived) would choose such a life…and now my novel about a medieval girl enclosed with an anchoress, and the present-day professor studying them, will publish in November! All because I stumbled on a random factoid in a random article (and, a factoid that may not even be true!)
that's so fascinating! and I think those "could this possibly be real" tidbits can be the start of such interesting, weird things!
Love this, Nancy. I agree so much with your querying of biographical accounts of Alice as the so-called 'difficult first wife' who impedes the man's genius. Really looking forward to the book, and glad to have her life highlighted. Cambridge University wasn't the end of her story!
Thanks, Ann!
Thank you for the shout out!