Women on the Camino

[Tom Priestly]

>Good question...when I walked in 1999, my introduction was from a winter
>pilgrim account of Andrea Kirby.  It might still be on-line.  As far as
>famous personages, what about Margery Kempe and Queen Isabella?
>
To which one could add
St. Isabel of Portugal
St. Bridget of Sweden
and when Chaucer wrote that the Wife of Bath had been "In Galice at
Seint Jame", was he suggesting something unusual?

Tom Priestly