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2 unusual facts about Hope Emily Allen


Hope Emily Allen

After Bryn Mawr, she went to Radcliffe to begin studying for her Ph.D, during which time she enrolled at Cambridge University in 1910 for a semester to study English literature.

Themes in her work include the spirituality of women in the late Middle Ages (Ancrene Riwle), contradictions and impossibilities in the work of Richard Rolle, and ideas on the religious life of late-medieval women in the Book of Margery Kempe.



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