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This learned and fascinating book presents Margery Kempe as one who reworks her life into writing as a way to respond to the books of consolation that were both deeply formative and deeply troubling to her. In doing so she created 'the book she wished she could have read' and offered her readers an imaginative point of entry into the ongoing process of spiritual development, one that valued feeling and lived experience as much as the textual tradition. Rebecca Krug reads Kempe and her Book in the full context of scholarship on Continental as well as English devotion and offers a particularly compelling account of collaboration, one that is intuitively persuasive but that also drives its point home with specific quotations from Kempe's Book. -Claire M. Waters, University of California, Davis, author of Angels and Early Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages

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Rebecca Krug is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader and Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England, both from Cornell.

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