ABSTRACT
The subject of this study is an account, unique in character, of the life in devotion of a medieval Englishwoman, Margery Kempe, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, who was born in the early 1370s and was alive in 1438. A manuscript volume which the Butler-Bowdon family, of Pleasington Hall, Lancashire, found among their possessions in 1934 was identified as The Book of Margery Kempe. It is now in the British Library (Additional MS 61823).
