Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Ladies at Court and the Female Reader
- Author / Editor
- McDonald, Nicola F.
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Ladies at Court and the Female Reader
- Published
- Chaucer Review 35: 22-42. , 2000.
- Description
- Manuscript evidence shows that fifteenth-century female readers of LGW were urban and either household servants or daughters of the gentry, whereas the implied female audience of fourteenth-century manuscripts consisted of members of the nobility, specifically the Garter sorority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.