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   What did Margery Kempe write?

   • Finally, during the 1420s she dictated her Book, known today as The Book of Margery Kempe, which illustrates her visions, mystical and religious experiences, as well as her "temptations to lechery, her travels, and her trial for heresy". Kempe's book is commonly considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language.

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   Who was Margery Kempe?

   • Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

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   Should I read the Book of Margery Kempe?

   • The Book of Margery Kempe is mostly the kind of text you read if you’re a medievalist, or maybe an English major at a women’s college, although I was an English major at a women’s college and I didn’t read it until I was in graduate school.

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   What language was Margery Kempe's story written in?

   • The Book of Margery Kempe was originally written in Middle English\. Though modern translations may be found, the original manuscript was penned in 1438 with the help of a scribe by Margery Kempe, who was illiterate and desperately wanted her religious journey story to be told.

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   Is the Book of Margery Kempe about being a mother?

   • It is important to note that The Book of Margery Kempe is a book written by a mother but it is not a book about being a mother. It mostly ignores the years Margery spent birthing and raising her children. But motherhood, and the way it changed her, is suffused throughout the text.

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   How long is the Book of Margery Kempe?

   • Although The Book of Margery Kempe in its entirety is over 336 pages, we focus below on the most commonly excerpted chapters which cover the birth of her first child, her attempt (and failure) as a business owner, coming to an agreement about celibacy with her husband, and her pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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   5 days ago · The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying. Margery Kempe is credited with writing the first autobiography in the English language. She was also one of Medieval England’s most outrageous mystics. Oct 11, 2024 • By Charli Cowgill, BA English Literature. Margery Kempe is remembered as one of history’s most outrageous figures.

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   Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

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   Written probably in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery Kempe is one of the most astonishing documents of late medieval English life. Its protagonist, who represents herself as its ultimate author, was not simply a woman but a woman thoroughly rooted in the world.’.

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   Almost all that is known of Margery Kempe comes from her book. Town records of Bishop's Lynn (now known as King's Lynn, Norfolk, England) record her father, John Brunham, as mayor of the town five times between 1370-1391 CE and a member of parliament, justice of the peace, and chamberlain. Kempe references her father with pride, often at the expens...

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   When Kempe was 40 years old, married 20 years and having borne her husband 14 children, she made a bargain with her husband to allow her to live a chaste life. Kempe agreed to pay off her husband's debts and to give up her Friday fasts and eat and drink with him as she used to and, in return, he agreed to renounce any claims to her body and allow h...

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   Kempe's description of her travels is far from any recognizable travel writing of any time. As Windeatt notes, “Margery would probably not have believed that human experience was worth recording for its own sake” (22). Although she traveled to Jerusalem, Rome, Assisi, Norway, Germany, and went on pilgrimage through Spain to Santiago de Compostela, ...

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   The manuscript must have circulated for some time and gained some attention for excerpts from it, credited to her name, were chosen by Wynkyn de Worde for inclusion in a book of pious sayings in 1501 CE. These excerpts were all that was known of Margery Kempe until 1934 CE when her complete manuscript was found in the cupboard of the Butler-Bowden ...

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   Margery Kempe's work continues to intrigue and fascinate readers in the modern day just as it must have shortly after her death. Scholars have debated whether the book can rightly be called an autobiography when it was actually written by someone else, whether it should instead be called a hagiography (saint's life), and other details of the work, ...

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   The story of the eventful life of Margery Kempe - medieval wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English.

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   Jul 28, 2005 · Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her story late in life: a remarkable portrait of a woman of unforgettable character and courage. This fully updated edition of Barry Windeatt's...

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   Margery Kempe, English religious mystic whose autobiography is one of the earliest in English literature. Apparently illiterate, she dictated her Book of Margery Kempe to two clerks from about 1432 to about 1436. It was first published (modernized) in 1936 and in Middle English in 1940.