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The anchoress
Hermits
Monasticism and religious orders for women
FICTION / Literary
Young women, fiction
Great britain, fiction
Young women
Fiction, historical
Historical fiction
Fiction, historical, general
New York Times reviewed
History
Fiction
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressu…
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