The Wooing Group is a set of six thirteenth-century prayers written for anchoresses that can be traced to the West Midlands. The name of the group was coined by W. Meredith Thompson to identify the common provenance of these texts in her EETS edition of the same (Thompson, Þe Wohunge of Ure Laured. Also includes: On Uriesun of Ure Lourerde; On Wel Swuðe God Ureisun of God Almihti; On Lofsong of Ure Louerde; On Lofsong of Ure Lefdi; Þe Oreisun of Seinte Marie. EETS o.s. 241. Oxford University Press, London, 1958). Texts in the Wooing Group include Þe Wohunge of Oure Laured (The Wooing of Our Lord), On wel swuð e God Ureisun of God Almihti (An Exceedingly Good Orison to God Almighty), On Lofsong of ure Lefdi (A Song of Praise Concerning Our Lady), and On Lofsong of ure Lourede (A Song of Praise Concerning Our Lord) along with the fragments On Ureisun of ure Lourede (An Orison to our Lord) and Þe Oriesun of Seinte Marie (The Orison to Saint Mary). The Wooing Group is connected in manuscript tradition to Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) and the Katherine Group (three hagiographies— St. Katherine, St. Margaret, and St. Juliana— Sawles Warde, and Hali meiðhad [Holy Maidenhood]). Bella Millett calls this larger group of texts the Ancrene Wisse Group (Millett 1996, 2004).