None of this is very promising for a late fourteenth-century woman who aspires to spiritual union with God, but that's okay. Margery Kempe may be no Julian of Norwich, but she's also, as John Kempe accuses, "No good wife" (I.11.58). Yeah, well, she married him, anyway, because even if he didn't have enough social status to please her, he did have a hot bod, which she liked enough to have fourteen kids with him. In fact, Kempe describes herself as a stuck-up, grabby person who's full of herself and thinks her hubby got lucky because he married the daughter of the mayor. She's not a nobly born, educated young woman who brings a large dowry to the convent she enters as a nun. She doesn't live in an isolated cell attached to a church, as an anchoress. This lady isn't your standard-issue Christian mystic. The Book of Margery Kempe Introduction An Unexpected Life
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