The Book of Margery Kempe vol I Text
Contributors: S. B. Meech (Editor)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Published: January 1, 1900
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780197222126
Subjects: Christian mysticism; Medieval; England; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500; Mysticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary studies: general; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Authors, English; Biography
First sentence: The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest surviving autobiographical writing in English, was lost for centuries until, in 1934, a fifteenth-century manuscript came to light, which had long been in the possession of an old Catholic family, the Butler-Bowdons.
Notes: Early English Text Society Original Series