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       Apparent First Woman Autobiographer
   DIR By: kkaran.1710
       Date: April 8, 2016, 11:21 pm
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       Hello
  HTML http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-first-woman-to-publish-a-book-in-english-lived-in-a-room-attached-to-a-church-and-walled-off-from-the-rest-of-the-world?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
  HTML http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/20/margery-kempe-first-autobiographer-digitised-british-library
       Interesting stuff about this lady named Margery Kempe
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       > She dictated her life story to a priest, but her autobiography
       was only known through excerpts printed by Wynkyn de Worde in
       1501, and by Henry Pepwell, who called her a "devoute ancres",
       in 1521, until a complete manuscript – thought to be a copy made
       from the original, possibly under Kempe's supervision – was
       discovered in a cupboard in the 1930s.
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       Historical context and the need for actually writing this down??
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       > "One wonders what the learned priest's reaction could have
       been," said Biggs, adding that Kempe had been described by
       critics as everything from a religious eccentric to a feminist
       icon, a literary genius and an early social reformer, but that
       "however we view her, there is no doubt that the work provides
       an invaluable insight into 15th-century urban life and into the
       religious practices of the period."
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