Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Ladies at Court and the Female Reader

Author / Editor
McDonald, Nicola F.

Title
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.