Reading Women's Culture in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Alice Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Meale, Carol M.
Reading Women's Culture in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Alice Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 81-101.
- Description
- Examines the life, tomb, and library of Alice Chaucer--granddaughter of the poet--to suggest how we might reconstruct a women's literary culture of the fifteenth century. Alice's literary taste was influenced by her father, Thomas Chaucer; by the French connections ofher two husbands; and by her role as mother, and possibly educator of her politically important son.
- Alternative Title
- Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.