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Revelations /

"Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharratt, Mary, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Subjects:
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373- > Fiction.
Julian, > of Norwich, > 1343- > Fiction.
Julian, > of Norwich, > 1343- > Revelations of divine love > Fiction.
Julian, > of Norwich, > 1343-
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373-
Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500 > Fiction.
Women mystics > Fiction.
Christian life > Fiction.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Fiction.
Celibacy > Fiction.
Middle Ages > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 > Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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