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""Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes's debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts.""-- ""The Guardian"" ""Brilliantly revealing.""-- ""The Observer"" ""Hetta Howes presents a history of medieval women's lives as told through the prism of four exceptional individuals. . . . And throughout, the tensions of medieval womanhood strain and stretch -- eroticism and purity, sexuality and motherhood, silence and speech.""-- ""The New York Times"" ""Howes's book is highly readable and informative.""-- ""The Spectator"" ""Lively and enjoyable. . . . The result is illuminating. . . . Evokes the spirit of the period so well.""-- ""History Today"" ""Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta Howes's book excelled in public roles that called into question what was supposed to be the nature of women. . . . These four women: What can I say? The more things change, the more they remain the same""-- ""The New York Sun"" ""[An] immensely readable and academically rigorous book, Hetta Howes has succeeded in assimilating a vast array of material about the circumstances and contributions of women in medieval times, when the material is itself scattered, hidden, piecemeal, and prejudiced. . . . This is a valuable contribution to our understanding."" -- ""The Church Times"" ""With its focus on women who managed to thrive in the face of such challenges, Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife is a celebration of female ambition and endeavour in a patriarchal society, and especially of four remarkable individuals who, thanks to their sex, have not always been taken seriously.""-- ""The Times""

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Hetta Howes is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at City University of London. Named as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she regularly contributes to broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and writes for publications such as the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History Extra.

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