Modern Women Hermits & Solitaries
MODERN WOMEN HERMITS & SOLITARIES
1.Emily Diickinson, poet, USA
2. Jeannie, Lithuania/UK
3. Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969)
4. Simone Weil(1909-1943)
5. Agafia Lykova (b. 1944), Russia
6. Anonymous hermit, China; from Bill Porter: Road to Heaven
7. Yuan-chao, China; from Bill Porter: Road to Heaven
8. Tenzin Palmo (British-born Diane Perry (b. 1943), spent ten years as q cave hermit, now founded and runs Buddhist sdhool for girls in India
9. Sabrida Shing, widow aspring to become brahmin, Kathmandu, India" />
10. Mmother Tekla (1918-2011), Orthodox hermit nun, librettist of composer John Taverner, UK"
11. Rachel Denton, hermit-nun, calligrapher, UK
12. Karen Markhamm, hgermit-nun, UK
13. Julia Bolton holloway, hermit-nun, medieval scholar, social-worker, Italy
14. Wendy Beckett, 1930-2018, Carmelite hermit-nun, art historian, television presenter, UK
15. Michaela Terrio, hermit-nun, Sky Farm Hermitage, California, USA, successor to Dunstan Morrissey.
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16. Martha Frock b. 1917?, Everglades hermit
17. Ann LaBastille, 1933-2011, ecologist, photographer, Adirondacks, New York State, USA.
18. Sara Maitland (b. 1950), fiction/nonfiction writer, author of A Book of Silence, Scotland/UK.
19.Jane Cooper, year-long hermit on a Tasmanian Island at age 17 yrs., Australia
20. Emma Orbach (b. 1955), Oxford graduate in Chinese studies; hermit dwelling in yurt-like structure in wilderness Wals (UK).
21. Tamsin Calidas, author of I AM An Island,island hermit, Hebrides, Scotland (UK).
22.Gao-ming, Taoist hermit in Zhongshan mountains, China.