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I did not realize this book was a fictional telling of two medieval women I read about last year in the book Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

“I said to my husband that I wished to make a record of my life…

‘But Margery, there would be no interest in such a thing. A woman knows little of life,’ he said’” (156-157).

To quote Miss Cornelia: “Isn’t that like a man?” 🤣

“I have become a great watcher of light and dark. Once the golden light of the sun sinks away, the colour is taken out of things, and the world fades one object at a time…In the morning, I watch the world coming into being, leaf by leaf, brick by brick, cloud by cloud, as if every day God says ‘Let there be light’ and creates the world afresh” (111-112).