The book itself was lost for centuries until the manuscript was found in a cupboard of the home of Lt.-Col. 1491 CE), publisher of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer (l.
1534 CE) who worked in England with the printer William Caxton (c. The final version of the book was completed in July 1436 CE and must have enjoyed some level of popularity because excerpts were printed in 1501 CE by Wynkyn de Worde (d. Kempe was illiterate and dictated her life story first to her son and then to a priest, as she records in her book, and it remains a significant resource on Christian spirituality and life in the Middle Ages.
1438 CE) was a medieval mystic and author of the first autobiography in English, The Book of Margery Kempe, which relates her spiritual journey from wife and mother in Bishop's Lynn, England to a chaste Christian visionary and popular – if controversial – public speaker.
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