Autobiography of Margery Kempe: Struggles, Trials, Perseverance and Courage The Book of Margery Kempe is the earliest autobiography written in English, being a fifteenth century manuscript, and is a work of Christian mysticism, telling the tale of a medieval mystic, Margery Kempe (ca. 1373-1438), being transformed from sinner to saint. ... Her recollections detail her spiritual journey through a life that was anything but ordinary, fraught with business failures, the difficult pregnancy and birth of her first child, bearing thirteen subsequent children while desiring chaste living; enduring ...

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