For I Have Tools to Truss' : Women, Work, and Professionalism in Late Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Huth, Jennifer Mary.

Title
For I Have Tools to Truss' : Women, Work, and Professionalism in Late Medieval Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 159A.

Description
Examines the rise of professionalism and women's efforts to achieve autonomy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England as represented in the mystery cycles, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and Margery Kempe.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.