Diane Watt is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her previous books include Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 (2019), Medieval Women's Writing: Books By and For Women in England, 1100–1500 (2007), Amoral Gower: Language, Sex and Politics (2003), and Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (1997).