Unlocked Doors: Geoffrey Chaucer's Writing-Rooms and Elizabeth Chaucer's Nunnery.

Author / Editor
Turner, Marion.

Title
Unlocked Doors: Geoffrey Chaucer's Writing-Rooms and Elizabeth Chaucer's Nunnery.

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 423-34.

Description
Maintains that Chaucer's works indicate his reliance upon social interaction and collaboration as spurs to creativity, commenting on HF (a "poem about writer's block"), and on public space and creativity in NPT, TC, and ClP. Also describes the conditions and nature of his daughter's four-year residence in St. Helen's Bishopsgate, close to her father's Aldgate residence and that of her grandmother.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Clerk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale