Born: 1342 (circa), United Kingdom
Died: after 1416
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian
The following is excerpted from 400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
DAME JULIANA OF NORWICH, Anchoress, is said to have been born in 1343. She was probably a Benedictine nun of the house at Carrow, near Norwich, but lived for the greater part of her life in an anchorage in the churchyard of St. Julian at Norwich. The rectory of St. Julian was impropriated to Carrow, and the anchorage was inhabited by recluses after Juliana’s time.
She died at Norwich in 1443. Juliana wrote XVI Revelations of Divine Love, a manuscript copy of which is at the British Museum.
The following is excerpted from the Dictionary of National Biography, originally published between 1885 and 1900, by Smith, Elder & Co. It was written by William Arthur Jobson Archbold.
JULIANA (1343–1443), anchoret, is said to have been born in 1343. She was probably a Benedictine nun of the house at Carrow, near Norwich, but lived for the greater part of her life in an anchorage in the churchyard of St. Julian at Norwich. The rectory of St. Julian was impropriated to Carrow, and the anchorage was inhabited by recluses after Juliana’s time. She died at Norwich in 1443. Juliana wrote ‘XVI Revelations of Divine Love,’ two manuscript copies of which are at the British Museum (Sloane MSS. 2499 and 3705). Peck also had a copy, or the original. The work, which is wholly mystical, was edited by R. F. S. Cressy in 1670; a reprint was issued in 1843; in 1877 it was edited with a preface by Henry Collins from the Sloane MS. for the Mediæval Library of Mystical and Ascetical Works.
The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.
A singular character, of Norwich, who, in her zeal for mortification, confined herself for several years within four walls. She wrote “Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love showed to a devout Servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana, an Anchoret of Norwich, who lived in the days of King Edward the Third,” published in 1610.