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The Vindolanda Tablets (UK) depict life in Roman Britain. Amongst them is a party invitation featuring the earliest known Latin handwriting by a woman. How commonplace would it have been for a woman in Roman society to have a level of literacy sufficient to enable her to read and write ?

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The Vindolanda Tablets (UK) depict life in Roman Britain. Amongst them is a party invitation featuring the earliest known Latin handwriting by a woman. How commonplace would it have been for a woman in Roman society to have a level of literacy sufficient to enable her to read and write ?	59