The Anchoress
"No music comes from the anchorhold. You cannot stand outside, and peer through a prison window, to see the woman who holds this castle together with her prayers. She isn't here, and you aren't here either."[1]
The Anchoress does not exist, and yet she does.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Real-Life Inspirations
It is not certain that the Anchoress is this person, but she has much in common with Julian of Norwich (1343-14??), the anchoress of St. Julian's Church in Norwich, England. Julian spent a significant portion of her life in seclusion and prayer, and penned a collection of theological writings now called Revelations of Divine Love - the earliest surviving English-language works written by a woman. She is oft quoted in Fallen London; it was Julian who wrote, in her optimistic theological testimony, "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
As legend has it, like the Anchoress, Julian was kept company in her cell by a cat.
