Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.

Becoming a woman is messy and magical.Written over a span of 18 years, this debut collection of poetry by Hunni Bloom journeys through the mysteries, heartaches, and awakenings of feminine expansion. Full of lessons, questions, and explorations of budding femininity, Maidenhood: Eighteen Years of Life Becoming, is a guide and a gift on the path of womanhood.In ancient mythologies, the three-part Goddess of maidenhood-motherhood-crone symbolizes the three phases of life as a woman. Maidenhood is the time of searching and exploring who she is becoming, who she desires to be, and the life she yearns to create and live.This book is a journey of maidenhood offering poems of friendship, love, sexuality, navigating loss and trauma, questioning God and purpose, exploring inner truths and desires, reckoning relationships with mothers and homeplace, and blooming through transitions and cycles.Hunni Bloom's poetry will make you laugh, cringe, cry, and re-member the soul of femininity.