
The Mystic Margery Kempe
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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The Legend of Marjorie Kemp
The first print edition of Marjorie Kemp's book came out in 1940. You can read medieval women, women mystics entire work on the internet for free. Regardless of whether you feel that her visions were real or were psychosis, she was a remarkable woman. It's significant not just from her religious story and her societal sort of fascinating trajectory, but also just in terms of a historical document about what it was like to live in a port city at the time.
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