Therefore, I"m starting from scratch on the comparison of Margery Kempe's character in her Book and Chaucer's Wife of Bath character. ... Kempe's book is said to be "the spiritual autobiography of a medieval laywoman, telling of her struggles to carry out instructions for a holy life that she claimed to have received in personal visions from Christ and the Virgin Mary" (366). ... There is a difference between Margery Kempe's character and the Wife in Chaucer's tale. ... If Margery Kempe's character would have been in attendance on the pilgrimage that Chaucer...

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