 Volume I of "The Book of Margery Kempe", with notes by Hope Emily Allen, was published by the Early English Text Society in 1940.Sadly, although Allen planned and worked extensively on a second volume of her magnum opus; it was never completed.Nevertheless, Allen promoted a secular, feminist criticism of the "Book of Margery Kempe", raising issues of the materiality of the text and its cultural production in addition to its content.