![]() She takes this as a sign to become a more devout Christian however she doesn’t do so for quite some time. ![]() The Book starts with Margery’s initial struggle to become devoted to God after receiving a vision from Christ some while after confessing a long kept sin to her confessor. More times than not, when asked, a scribe would refuse to write her book for her because of the risks attached to the act. ![]() Though she was illiterate in both Latin and vernacular, like most women of her time, Margery was able to compile this autobiography through the assistance of a handful of scribes or “readers” as Carolyn Dinshaw puts it. Margery’s book, The Book of Margery Kempe, depicts her many interactions and struggles from her first steps into a devout life to her travels around Europe and more. She is well noted in the literary world as the first person to author an autobiography in English. Margery Kempe was a very expressive 15th century Christian mystic. ![]()
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