The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her four
A Poem of Margery Kempe
โ Scribed by Howard Nemerov
- Book ID
- 124769671
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Year
- 1949
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-702X
- DOI
- 10.2307/3847383
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