Barnhouse, Rebecca.

The book of the maidservant / Rebecca Barnhouse. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2009. - 232 p. : map ; 22 cm.

In 1413, a young maidservant accompanies her deeply religious mistress, Dame Margery Kempe, on a pilgrimage to Rome. Includes author's note on Kempe, writer of "The Book of Margery Kempe," considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

9780375858567 (trade) 9780375958564 (lib. bdg.) 9780375858574 (pbk.)


Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373 --Juvenile fiction.
Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373 --Fiction.


Religious life--Fiction.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Middle Ages--Fiction.

813.0099283 / BAR 2009