Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416) was a medieval English Catholic anchoress whose work, Revelations of Divine Love, stands as the earliest surviving English-language writings attributed to a woman. Living in Norwich during a turbulent period marked by the Black Death (1348–1350), the Peasants' Revolt (1381), and the suppression of the Lollards, she experienced a series of profound visions of Christ's Passion in 1373 while gravely ill at age 30, which she later recorded in two versions, including the longer "Long Text." She spent her life in permanent seclusion as an anchoress at St Julian's Church, where she became a respected spiritual advisor, even counseling the famous mystic Margery Kempe. Although her writings were carefully preserved, they remained unpublished until 1670 (by the Benedictine monk Serenus de Cressy) and only emerged from obscurity in 1901 when Grace Warrack transcribed and published a manuscript from the British Museum. Today, Julian is celebrated as a major Christian mystic and theologian, with her optimistic theology—including the famous phrase "all shall be well"—continuing to inspire readers centuries later.