| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Berners, Juliana |
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(b r´n rz, bärnz) (KEY) , supposed early 15th-century author of a popular verse treatise on hunting. The treatise is included in The Book of St. Albans (1486), a collection treating the arts of heraldry, hawking, and field sports. If Juliana was the author, she is one of the earliest women writers in English; although tradition designates her the prioress of a nunnery in Hertfordshire, nothing is actually known of her life. | 1 | | See facsimile edition with introduction by W. Blades (1881). | 2 |
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