The surviving corpus of female saints’ lives in Old English includes fewer than twenty texts, about half by Ælfric of Eynsham (ca. 955–ca. 1010) and half by anonymous authors. The most prominent are the passions of martyred virgins, including Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, and Margaret, who defy their pagan tormentors in order to avoid marriage. Female saints who die of natural causes are rare by comparison; these include the English saints Æthelthryth and her sister Seaxburg, Mildred and her mother Eormenburh, and the penitent harlot Mary of Egypt. Also included are two saints—the martyr Eugenia and the confessor Euphrosyne—historically classed with the virgins and problematically labeled “transvestite saints,” whose lives should be reconsidered in light of developments in transgender studies.