High status - can you say more precisely what she is, eg a senator's daughter? But I think it would be a great read

Long coats are a pain in the ass in an office without a cloakroom (all of them), public transport or driving to work?

Those bones got butchery marks too.

Bins and potholes, old people and children.

...enjoy the diversion!

"we write at the request, nay, by the command of her venerable mother, who solicits it from us in a letter sent across the sea and revealing the remarkable force of her heartfelt desire"

Pelagianism came from Britain, St Germanus came in 429 to fight it

epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/1296....

In which case - have at epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu

I am now trying to steer myself away from that rabbit hole and onto the research I should be doing. Women writers fascinate me since I looked at the women in the Vindolanda letters (maj chapter in my own book).

Also e.g., ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

I don't think we have any (or from men in Britain); I think a case can be made in analogy eg with Jerome's correspondents which are stacked with women writing over long distances about these things.

api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/portalfil...

They were also great letter writers, keeping connections with their wider families and engaging in discussions of theological matters.