Author: WINDEATT, B. A; Editor.
Title: The Book Of Margery Kempe: A Woman's Life in the Middle Ages. Introduced and edited by B. A. Windeatt. Preface by Alice Thomas Ellis. Illustrations by Chris Daunt.
Description: First Folio Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxxiii, 297; illustrated frontispiece, text with 11 b/w. illustrations, notes, further reading, bound in original full cloth printed and blocked boards with a design by the artist, housed in original slipcase, fine copy. London; The Folio Society; 2004. Kempe's book is widely cited as the first autobiography in English: however scholars disagree on whether it can accurately be called an autobiography, or whether it would be more accurately classified as a confession of faith or autohagiography.
Keywords: biography history england
Title: The Book Of Margery Kempe: A Woman's Life in the Middle Ages. Introduced and edited by B. A. Windeatt. Preface by Alice Thomas Ellis. Illustrations by Chris Daunt.
Description: First Folio Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxxiii, 297; illustrated frontispiece, text with 11 b/w. illustrations, notes, further reading, bound in original full cloth printed and blocked boards with a design by the artist, housed in original slipcase, fine copy. London; The Folio Society; 2004. Kempe's book is widely cited as the first autobiography in English: however scholars disagree on whether it can accurately be called an autobiography, or whether it would be more accurately classified as a confession of faith or autohagiography.
Keywords: biography history england
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118739
- Book number: 118739