holden-caulfield reviewed on 11/22/2005 + 16 more book reviews

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Margery Kempe! What else to say other than she was the most controversial mystic of all time. After giving birth to fourteen kids and failing in business as a brewmaster, she had a vision from none other than God on High! God gave her the "gift of tears" and Margery roamed the planet wailing uncontrollably for years. Most of her contemporaries hated her, but she got a book written about/by her self at a time when women in literature were unheard of. Incredible story about a mystic that reminds me of Chaucer's Wyf of Bath.

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