Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) is known for dictating The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. This book chronicles, to some extent, her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and Asia, as well as her mystical conversations with God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion.
Read more about Margery Kempe: Early Life, Marriage and Family, A Vision, Kempe's Significance, Veneration, Julian of Norwich, Mysticism, Pilgrimage, Editions of Her Book
Famous quotes containing the word margery:
“Though Margery is stricken dumb
If thrown in Madge’s way,
We three make up a solitude;
For none alive to-day
Can know the stories that we know
Or say the things we say....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)