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The Mystic Margery Kempe

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Relationship Between Marjorie and the Priest

The text of the autobiography was not discovered until 1934. People knew that this book existed because a guy named De Word had published excerpts from it in an eight-page pamphlet. In 1934, people would just pick it up on a library shelf and read it. They thought that it was going to be a book about somebody who was a recluse or something like that.

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