since Lynn was a busy town of commerce and trade, the middle-class inhabitants were wealthy. The status of Margery’s father, John, several times mayor of Lynn, helped to instill Margery with self-respect. She was very much influenced by the people of Lynn’s concern with status and wealth: “She had a very great envy of her neighbors that they should be as well arrayed as she.” In her Book, she even goes so far as to say that her marriage to businessman John Kempe did no justice to her “worthy kindred” and was a socially-imbalanced relationship, although they both belonged to the same social class. This haughtiness and sense of pride are distinguishing features of Margery throughout her life.