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(Text)
Traditionally, the feminist movement in England is dated at the threshold of the eighteenth century. A close reading of The Book of Margery Kempe has revealed irrefutable evidence of much earlier roots. To her reputation as a minor mystic and the author of the first autobiography in the English language can be added a greater claim. The Book , Margery Kempe's record of her struggle for self-definition, demands inclusion among the serious contributions to feminist literature.
(Table of content)
Contents: Comparison of the writings of the contemporaries: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe - Search for successors to Margery Kempe's achievement - Comparison of the writings of Mary Astell (hitherto designated the "first feminist") with The Book of Margery Kempe .
(Author portrait)
The Author: Verena Neuburger, born in 1944, studied English Literature and History at the University of Zürich. After living abroad, she and her family have now settled in Switzerland.
