The Book of Margery Kempe Genre

Autobiography

So there's some debate over whether this work can really be attributed to Kempe herself, since her male scribes would have had ultimate control over what actually got recorded on her behalf. Then there's the question of Kempe's authorization of the final text. How could she approve the contents if she couldn't actually read them? Despite these still unsolved questions, The Book of Margery Kempe is generally accepted as a non-first person account of the good old Marge's life.