Study Questions. Provide examples from the works:

1. Why does López de Córdoba compose her Memorias? And Margery Kempe hers?

2. According to what the two women relate to us, what are the most significant episodes in their life?

3. What purpose is the use of dialogue? When does she employ it? (Particularly Leonor.)

4. The temporal distance between the events as they occurred and the moment that she has them recorded is great  (it is thought that her Memorias were produced 12 years after she was thrown out of her aunt's house). How does memory influence the selection, organization and description of the events in her work? And the work of Margery Kempe?

5. What role do men play in the two women's autobiography? The role of women?

6. How would you describe López de Córdoba as an individual? In other words, how would you characterize her? And Margery Kempe?

7. How are the women different? Similar?