Lionesses Painting Lionesses?: Chaucer's Women as Seen by Early Women Scholars and Academic Critics

Author / Editor
Haas, Renate.

Title
Lionesses Painting Lionesses?: Chaucer's Women as Seen by Early Women Scholars and Academic Critics

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 178-92.

Description
Early dissertations on Chaucer by women illustrate the limitations faced by early female academics. Critical neglect of Maria Koellreutter's 1908 dissertation on Chaucer suggests little recent social progress.

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.