Image: Marie de France ([source](https://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/what-makes-breton-lays-breton-bretons-britons-and-celtic-otherness-in-medieval-romance/));xNLx;Background image: A crossed letter written by Mrs. F. L. Bridgeman to Fanny West, December 15, 1837. (Miscellaneous Collection; Reference Code: F775 (1837-10); Archives of Ontario) ([Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10_16_cross_writing_1020.jpg));xNLx;;xNLx;This timeline benefits from a number of sources, including the invaluable [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). Images are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license unless otherwise stated. All errors are my own.;xNLx;;xNLx;Compiled by Miriam Jones, Humanities and Languages, [University of New Brunswick Saint John](https://unb.ca), in Menahkwesk on the unceded land of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
"The Wife's Lament" is one of the poems collected in the Exeter Book, the largest and oldest collection of Old English poetry extant.
Marie de France was an Anglo-Norman writer of tales, fables, and at least one hagiography.
There are twelve Breton lais by Marie de France extant: chivalric tales written in Anglo Norman.
Julian of Norwich (1343 – after 1416) was a Christian mystic writer and anchorite.
Julian of Norwich wrote two versions of her famous text:
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was a Christian mystic, writer, and traveller.
Margery Kempe's spiritual autobiography was not published in its entirely until the twentieth century.
Gwerful Mechain (fl. 1460–1502) was a Welsh medieval poet.
Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), poet
Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1653) was a Renaissance poet.
