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The Mystic Margery Kempe

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Life and Times of Marjorie Brunham

Marjorie Brunham is often credited as the creator of the first autobiography in English. She dictated it because she was not literate herself. It isn't written in chronological order, but scholars have pieced together a timeline based on references to holidays and world events that we know when they happen.

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