The Book of Margery Kempe
$31.26
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 October 1985
Summary
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 fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140432515 |
| Author: | Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 October 1985 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe, born c.1373, was of a well-to-do middle-class family from King’s Lynn in Norfolk. Married at twenty, she had a vision of Christ following her first childbirth, and after early failures as a businesswoman, felt herself called to the spiritual life. At about the age of forty, after she had bore fourteen children, she persuaded her husband to a vow of chastity and began a pilgrimage across England, Europe and the Holy Land. She was a controversial figure and was often imprisoned and abused for her actions. Towards the end of her life she dictated an account of her travels and visions, which was discovered in 1934. It is the earliest example of an autobiography in English.
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