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'In the early 1410s, after 20 years of marriage, 14 children and countless post-natal visitations from Christ, Margery Kempe persuaded her husband to take a vow of chastity with her. An illiterate middle-class woman, Kempe generally is regarded as having written the first autobiography in English. She dictated it in the third person. And, by god, she writes like Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.'(Introduction)
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Grim Vision of Gaslighting through the Ages
The Australian
The Australian
