The Book of Margery Kempe by Kempe Margery( Translated by Barry Windeatt)
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Overview: The Book of Margery Kempe book is widely cited as the first autobiography in English.
MARGERY KEMPE, born c. 1373 of well-to-do middle-class parentage in King’s Lynn, in Norfolk, was married at twenty, had a vision of Christ in her madness following her first childbirth, and, after early failures as a businesswoman, saw visions and felt herself called to a spiritual life. At about the age of forty, when she had borne fourteen children, she persuaded her husband to join her in a mutual vow of chastity, and then embarked on an eventful life of pilgrimage in England, Europe and the Holy Land, visiting both great and humble religious figures of her day, ceaselessly seeking the counsel of mystics and recluses. Always a controversial figure, her devotion characteristically expressed itself in loud weeping and cries, which often divided priests, congregations and fellow pilgrims into friends or enemies, and she was several times in danger of being burnt at the stake as a heretic. Towards the end of her life she dictated in an account of her travels and visions her spiritual autobiography, and the discovery of a unique manuscript in 1934 has restored to English literature the earliest autobiography in English.
Genre: Autobiography
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