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TIL that Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438) was an English mystic and author of the first English autobiography. Known for intense visions, extreme devotion, loud public sobbing, preaching without approval, accusations of heresy, and extensive pilgrimages across Europe and the Holy Land.

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