Marjory Kempe (c.1373 - after 1438)

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Primary Sources

Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, new edn. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0140432515. pp.336.

Secondary Sources

	Clarissa W. Atkinson, Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Marjory Kempe. Cornell University Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0801498953. pp.242.
	Clare M. Bradford, "Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe," Theology Today 35.2 (1978): 153-158.
	K. Cholmeley, Marjory Kempe: Genius and Mystic. London: Catholic Book Club, 1948. pp. xiii + 118.
	Louise Collis, Memoirs of a Medieval Woman : the Life and Times of Margery Kempe. HarperPerennial, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0060909927. pp.270.
	Susan Eberly, "Margery Kempe, St. Mary Magdalene, and Patterns of Contemplation," Downside Review 107(368) (1989): 209-223.
	Margaret Gallyon, Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England. Norwich: The Canterbury Press, 1995. Pnk. ISBN: 1853111112. pp.192.
	Anthony E. Goodman, Margery Kempe and Her World. The Medieval World. Longman, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0582368081. pp.294.
	Raymond A. Powell, "Margery Kempe: An Exemplar of Late Medieval English Piety," Catholic Historical Review 89.1 (2003): 1-23.
	J.C. Hirsch, The Revelations of Marjory Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England. Medieval and Renaissance Authors, Vol 10. Leiden: E J Brill, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 9004089632. pp.127.
	Kathleen Kamerick, "Art and Moral Vision in Angela of Foligno and Margery Kempe," Mystics Quarterly 21.4 (1995): 148-158.
	David Knowles, The English Mystical Tradition. New York: Search Press, 1964. Pbk. ISBN: 0855320893.
	Elona K. Lucas, "The Enigmatic, Threatening Margery Kempe," Downside Review 105(361) (1987): 294-305.
	Sandra McEntire, "The Dialogics of Margery Kempe and Her Book," Mystics Quarterly 26.4 (2000): 179-197.
	Raymond A. Powell, "Margery Kempe: An Exemplar of Late Medieval English Piety," Catholic Historical Review 89.1 (2003): 1-23.
	Ellen M. Ross, "Spiritual Experience and Women's Autobiography: The Rhetoric of Selfhood in The Book of Margery Kempe," Journal of American Academy of Religion 59.3 (1991): 527-546.
	Charity Scott Stokes, "Margery Kempe: Her Life and the Early History of Her Book," Mystics Quarterly 25.1-2 (1999): 9-68.
	M.S.F. Thornton, Marjory Kempe: An Example in the English Pastoral Tradition. London: SPCK, 1960. pp.120.
	Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, The Book of Margery Kempe: A Study of the Meditations in the Context of Late Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy, and Iconography, Ph.D. Thesis. University of Exeter, 2001.

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