A Woman to Know: Margery Kempe
Patience is more worthy than miracle-working. — Margery Kempe
Patience is more worthy than miracle-working. — Margery Kempe
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Some say Margery Kempe’s biography may be the first-ever book recorded in the English language. But she didn’t “write” it herself. Instead, some time between 1432 and 1436, she dictated it from her cell, reading to two scribes who waited outside the barred door.
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