Margery Kempe (1373–1438)

Author of the first autobiography in English. Margery Kempe was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations, her adoption of celibacy, her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and the Holy Land, her worship performances, as well as her mystical conversations with God and Christ. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion, but has not been canonised as a Catholic saint.