Hygeburg

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title: Hygeburg
text: Hygeburg, also Hugeburc, Hugeberc, Huneberc or Huneburc, was an Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer at the Alemannian monastery of Heidenheim. She is "the first known Englishwoman to have written a full-length literary work" and "the only woman author of a saint's life from the Carolingian period". Heidenheim was founded as a monastery for monks in 752 by Wynnebald, an Anglo-Saxon from Wessex. On his death in 761, his sister Walburg inherited it and converted it into a double monastery with the int
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description: Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer
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