Ramona Bressie, the Study of Manuscripts, and the Chaucer Life-Records

Author / Editor
Bestul, Thomas H.

Title
Ramona Bressie, the Study of Manuscripts, and the Chaucer Life-Records

Published
Medieval Feminist Forum 45.1 (2009): 68-92.

Description
Biographical sketch of Bressie, focusing on her work with John M. Manly, Edith Rickert, and Lilian Redstone on the Chaucer life-records and her unsuccessful competition with Martin Crow to publish works related to Chaucer. Bestul admires Bressie's dedication, lays clear her ambitiousness, and describes the conditions that contributed to her isolation, obsessiveness, and status as an "oppressed female academic."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life