Kempe, Margery (kĕmp), d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only in small excerpts until 1934, when the whole was discovered. She was a religious enthusiast whose loud weeping in church and reproof of her neighbors kept her in public disfavor. She traveled abroad as a pilgrim, and her work has rich details of the everyday life of her time. The narrative is occasionally interrupted with visions, prayers, and meditations, many of them of great beauty. The book may be the earliest autobiography in English. See mysticism mysticism [Gr.,=the practice of those who are initiated into the mysteries], the practice of putting oneself into, and remaining in, direct relation with God, the Absolute, or any unifying principle of life. Mysticism is inseparably linked with religion.
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See biographies by M. Thornton (1961) and L. Collis (1964); study by R. K. Stone (1970).

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(born c. 1373—died c. 1440) English mystic. She had 14 children before beginning a series of pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, Germany, and Spain in 1414. Apparently illiterate, she dictated her autobiography, Book of Margery Kempe, describing her travels and her religious ecstasies in an unaffected style (c. 1432–36). It is one of the earliest autobiographies in English literature.

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Though Dame Margery Kempe feels the pain of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, she is all but blind to the suffering around her.

The Book of the Maidservant by Internet Bookwatch

Medieval writers, too, engaged in such conferences--particularly, as Cheryl Glenn explains in her examination of the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe, in cases when the "writer" was in fact illiterate.

Medieval literacy in the writing center by LeCluyse, Christopher / Writing Lab Newsletter

The role of religious manuscripts in the education of girls at the Burgundian court is traced, beginning with the library inventory of Margaret's own mother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, who had hosted Margery Kempe.

Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: ... by Hutchison, Jane Campbell / Renaissance Quarterly

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