Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship in the Lives of Christina Markyate, Margery Kempe, and Margaret Paston
- Author / Editor
- Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship in the Lives of Christina Markyate, Margery Kempe, and Margaret Paston
- Published
- Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
- Description
- Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated by men, would be "more accurate in their self-depictions."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.