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The Lost Book of Marjorie Kemp
The book of marjorie kemp is the first piece of autobiographical writing in english. Previously, the only known version of that text was a series of heavily abbreviated printed extracts by william caxton england's first printers. But now we have an open, unvarnished, honest account of a woman's life in the early fifteenth century.
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