Diane Watt is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts and Translations
General Map
Introduction
1 Women's Literary Communities at Ely and Whitby
2 Women Writing at Barking and Minster-in-Thanet
3 Missionary Women's Letters and Poetry
4 Exemplary Missionary Lives
5 (Re)writing Women's History at Wilton Abbey
6 Textual Intimacies in and beyond Wilton
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index