Margaret Gallyon

Margaret Gallyon was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, Norwich Teacher Training College and the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham. As a former teacher at King’s Lynn High School, she acquired a considerable knowledge of the town of Lynn and the surrounding district. It was here too that she first became interested in Margery Kempe, one of Lynn’s most fascinating medieval citizens. She is the author of three books on the coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England.