She was so bent on reading, writes the anonymous biographer of the Abbess of Bischofsheim, that she never laid aside her book except to pray or to strengthen her slight frame with food and sleep.This eighth-century abbess, an Englishwoman named Leoba, is thought to have been taught Latin by another woman, Eadburg, Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, Kent; the poetry that resulted is some of the earliest literary work by a named Englishwoman in existence.
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