Kempe, Margery
KEMPE, MARGERY (c. 1373–c.1440), English pilgrim, autobiographer, and professional holy woman. Kempe was the daughter of a prosperous merchant of King's Lynn, England. Alt...
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Margery Kempe
1373?-1438?
English mystic and autobiographer whose dictated life story, The Book of Margery Kempe, is considered the first autobiography in English. A well-to-do matron who bore 14 chil...
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Margery Kempe
(1373 - 1440)
English autobiographer.
Margery Kempe: Introduction
Margery Kempe: Principal Works
Margery Kempe: Primary Sources
Margery Kempe: Title Commentary
Margery Kempe: Further Rea...
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Margery (Burnham) Kempe was a fifteenth-century Englishwoman known in her own time as a mystic and exemplar of the apostolic life of contemplative prayer and charitable works. Her life story, The Book...
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Margery Kempe, the main topic of this essay, was in fact a controversial person. During her lifetime peoples' opinions about her were quite polarized. She was a conspicuous person and was in many conf...
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Kempe, Margery
Margery Kempe
Kempe, Margery
Margery Kempe
