Dame Juliana Berners was an Englishwoman of letters and the purported author of A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), the earliest known volume on sport fishing. Little is known about her life, but she was said to be a prioress of the Sopwell Nunnery and possibly related to Sir James Berners, an attendant of King Richard II.
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