Anthologizing Women: Medieval Genre, Gender and Genital Poetics.

Published: Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Fully accessible via https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/ad2752f5-c295-4379-bbdd-1fab164a5106 (accessed February 22, 2026).

Description: "[I]nvestigates three medieval manuscript collections--compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries in Herefordshire, Derbyshire and East Anglia, respectively--that are significant in their similarly implied female readerships, their thematic treatment of the 'problem of women,' and their vocalization of the perspectives, and indeed often complaints, of female characters." Uses WBPT as a "focal point" for her study and includes a "gendered reading" of Chaucer's Purse as part of a "feminist sequence" of texts found in the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6).

Chaucer Subjects: Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Complaint to His Purse
Wife of Bath and Her Tale