Women's Letters and Private Space in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Stanbury, Sarah.

Title
Women's Letters and Private Space in Chaucer

Published
Exemplaria 6 (1994): 271-85.

Description
Chaucer's accounts of women who write and read letters in TC, MerT, and MLT reveal female privacy and autonomy to be sites of profound anxiety concerning the control of domestic space, women's actions, and women's bodies.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.