Margery Kempe Had 14 Children and She Still Invented the Memoir

Not many people know this, but the first memoir in the English language was probably written by a mom who cried a lot.  The Book of Margery Kempe is mostly the kind of text you read if you’re a medievalist, or maybe an English major at a women’s college, although I was an English major […] The post Margery Kempe Had 14 Children and She Still Invented the Memoir appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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