FHS2 T2 - Women's life-writing

In the day off cyrcumcysyon off Cryst, when I, Brygytte, was in the cyte off Roome, the Vyrgyn Mary aperyd and sayd to me - l. 81

Bridget - Virgin speaks to her, The Circumcision', l. 81

Our Lady aperid to Seynt Brigitt - l. 101

Bridget - switch to third person, 'The Virgin Teaches Bridget How to Praise her Son', l. 101

thou schalt lawde and prese me as yt followeth - l. 105

'Virgin Teaches Bridget', l. 105, Bridget as learning commentator

By the styrrynge of this I conseyvede a myghty desyre, prayande oure Lorde God that he wolde grawnte me thre woundys in my lyfe tyme (S.1/35-39)

Julian - short text, cecily and wants the wounds

In this first schewynge of oure Lorde I sawe sex thynges in myne undyrstandynge (S.5/4) / In which schewyng I understode vi things. (L.8)

Julian, short text to long text - understanding and certainty

And he lugh lowed and enterlye. And I sayde, 'the crosse that stode atte my bedde feete, it bled faste.' And with this worde the person that I spake to wex alle sadde and mervelande (S. 21/7-8)

Julian, short text - drawing on physical images for authority

But for nowte that I myte beholden and desyrin, I could no se the poynte in al the shewyng (L.47/8-9)

Julian - long text, failure of understanding, previously

Thys boke is not wretyn in ordyr, every thing aftyr other as it wer don, by lych as the mater cam to the creatur in mend whan it Schuld be wretyn - ll. 134-136

Margery - narrative order

many wondirful revelacyons whech sche scheweyd to the ankres to wtyn yf ther wer any deceyte in hem, for the ankres was expert in swech thyngys - ll. 1340-42

Margery - Julian gives her counsel.

many yerys aftyr sche was bodyn in hyr spyrit for to wrytyn. l.164

Margery - why she didn't write it sooner

I schal makyn al the werld to wondryn of the […] and worshepyn me in the - ll. 2395-97

Kempe - her as means by which god may be appreciated

sche menyth not wyth hir hert as sche seyth with hir mowthe! - l. 3815

Kempe - mayor of leicester accuses her of false speech

Than that precyows body aperyd to hir syght […] sche wept and cryid ryth sor - ll. 6445-48

Kempe - visions of christ's body and her weeping

For sche was evyr lettyd be hyr enmy, the devel - l. 183

Kempe - previous sin

The forseyd preste red hir bokys [...] thorw heryng of holy bokys and thorw heryng of holy sermownys, sche evyr encresyd in contemplaycon - ll. 4830-33

Kempe - priest reads to her

that schal I prevyn be Holy Writte, for owr Lord God seyde hymself

Kempe - uses scripture to argue against he mayor of leicester being mayor

Alle that I say of me, I mene in the person of al myn even-Cristen (l. 8)

Julian - self-effacing

'botte all schalle be wele, and alle maner of thynge schalle be wele' (S. 13) / 'Synne is behovabil, but al shal be wel, and al shal be wel, and al manner of thyng shal be wele' (L. 27)

Julian - words of jesus, revision from short text, repetitive style