Abstract
This is a study of the reading of Julian of Norwich’s Divine Revelations by an Irish immigrant, Thomas Connary, who worked as a farmer in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. A close examination of Connary’s annotations in Julian’s visionary autobiography reveals a remarkable intertextual dialogue of voices, in which Connary emulates, and is enabled by, past spiritual authority. By drawing parallels between the devotional practices and habits of reading of Julian and Connary, this essay thinks transhistorically about the nature of the visionary autobiography, and considers an aspect of the cultural mobility of a rich and articulate Middle English mystical tradition.
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