In the same year I published the edited collection, Medieval Women in Their Communities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press/Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997). My research was supported by a travel grant from the British Academy. It includes chapters on Margery Kempe, Elizabeth Barton (‘The Holy Maid of Kent’), Anne Askew, and Lady Eleanor Davies. Brewer, 1997) was a study of women and prophecy in late medieval and Early Modern England. My first monograph, Secretaries of God(Cambridge: D.S. My research has been supported by the AHRC, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. Having worked on the transition from the later Middle Ages to the Reformation and beyond, I have also completed a research project on early medieval women’s literary culture. I have explored women and prophecy, the poetry of John Gower, Yde et Olive, the letters of the Paston women, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, and a large number of other works by, for, and about medieval women. My research focuses on women and religion and women’s writing more broadly, female same-sex desire in the Middle Ages, and queer poetics. My primary research interests are medieval English literature and culture, religion, gender and sexuality.
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