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Jenni Nuttall

Jenni Nuttall
Dr. Jenni Nuttall is an academic who has been teaching and researching medieval literature at the University of Oxford for the last twenty years, and who has thus had a lot of practice at making old words interesting. She has a DPhil from Oxford and completed the University of East Anglia’s MA in creative writing. Mother Tongue is her first book for the general reader.


Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

Jenni Nuttall Considers the Earliest Written References to Menstruation
August 29, 2023  By Jenni Nuttall
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