'Faire Emelye': Medievalism and the Moral Courage of Emily Wilding Davison
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
'Faire Emelye': Medievalism and the Moral Courage of Emily Wilding Davison
- Published
- Chaucer Review 42 (2008): 223- 43.
- Physical Description
- 3 b&w illus.
- Description
- Considered in the light of key themes of Victorian medievalism and of her own early identification with Chaucer's Emily, Davison's actions--especially those leading to her untimely death--stand as expressions of her ethical commitment, rather than as deeds of the "wild enthusiast" for which historians have frequently taken her.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Knight and His Tale