The works already cited will have properly exhaustive lists, but off the
top of my heas, here are a few more known anchoresses & hermitesses:
the three sisters for whom Ancrene Wisse was written
the sister of St Aelred of Rievaulx
Aelfwen ( I think) , a friend & protector of Christina of Markyate
Christina Carpenter, who was enclosed in Shene, Surrey, but had second
thoughts and fled from her cell; had third thoughts and returned to it. The relevant
documents are on display in the church at Shene.
Sarah Salih
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