Margery Kempe and Her WorldPublication Date: 2002-07-25
Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a Burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines "The Book" to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow.