Two important sources of information about the life led by an anchoress have survived. In 1436 the anchoress Gormfhlaith died here. She survived and lived as an anchoress in Fischingen. Emma Raughton was an early 15th-century British anchoress. In her late teens, Osanna felt a call to live the life of an anchoress. Eventually she retired to live as an anchoress in a hollow oak tree. It is also the earliest surviving work written by an English anchorite or anchoress. In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, "The Anchoress", was published. A medieval cult of the anchoress Christina is not substantiated by liturgical or historical sources. Another option for becoming a solitary monastic was to become an anchoress. The anchoress Margaret Kirkby was born in the village, possibly in 1322. In the second quarter of the 13th century Britford had an anchoress called Joan. Brother William, Idonee de Boclaund (an anchoress), and Geoffrey le Hermit. Julian of Norwich was an anchoress at the Church of Saint Julian at Conisford, England. The BFI released Anchoress on DVD in 2009.