Shiela Delany's translation on Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wuumen (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into prose, A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history.