· Inspired by the fifteenth-century text The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English, debut novelist Rebecca Barnhouse chronicles Johanna’s painful journey through fear, anger, and physical hardship to ultimate www.doorway.ru The Book of the Maidservant - Kindle edition by Barnhouse, Rebecca. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Book of the Maidservant/5(19). Rebecca first encountered The Book of Margery Kempe during graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and medieval literature written in Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and other fascinating languages. Reading was like breathing to Rebecca when she was growing up. It still is /5.
Rebecca Barnhouse's historical fiction novel The Book of the Maidservant follows the tale of Dame Margery Kempe, a christian mystic from the early fourteen hundreds. The Book of Margery Kempe is believed to be the first autobiography ever published in english, and The Book of the Maidservant retells the story- but from the perspective of. In the author's note that follows Barnhouse's absorbing novel, readers learn that it was based on the first autobiography ever written in English, a woman's account of a pilgrimage from England to Rome in the 15th century. The author became fascinated by the woman's maidservant, who was inexplicably maligned by her mistress, and decided to retell the story from the domestic's. THE BOOK OF THE MAIDSERVANT, by Rebecca Barnhouse (Random House ) (ages 12+). The holy woman, Dame Margery Kempe, is on pilgrimage to Rome, so naturally, she must take Johanna, her maidservant. Along the way, the pair fall in with an eclectic group of fellow pilgrims, most of whom treat Johanna as if she was their servant and are.
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