From Without Beginning

Juliana of Norwich: An Appreciation and an Anthology, by P. Franklin Chambers. 224 pp. New York: Harper and Brothers. $2.75

The woman variously known as Dame, Mother and the Lady Juliana was born in 1342. She spent most of her life as an anchoress in a room adjacent to a small chapel in the prosperous weaving center of Norwich, in East Anglia. We have no record of her death, but she herself left us a very explicit account of the major day in her life.