The Goose's Quill: The Production of Female Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Author / Editor
Summit, Jennifer.

Title
The Goose's Quill: The Production of Female Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 240A.

Description
After the anonymity of earlier times, fourteenth-century writing reveals increasing individuation and attention to the gender of an author. Chaucer's fictional women writers indicate an anxious sense on his part of declining "auctoritas, whereas Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan exploit the disclocation to extend genres and break with tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.