This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, combines key essays in the field with specially commissioned material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, an introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of further reading, offering preliminary guidance to the novice reader of gender and medieval literature. Works and writers covered include: Chaucer; Margery Kempe; Christine de Pisan; the Katherine group of Saints' Lives; Langland's Piers Plowman; and medieval cycle drama. Students of both medieval and feminist...

Leslie Johnson traveled far away from her urban roots for more than twenty years and this period is re-visited in this collection derived from her day-dreams and aspirations that never surrendered to the distractions imposed by the stresses and imperfections of a hurried existence. These highly personal and secret realms reveal sensitivity, spirituality and personal triumph often undocumented during an unpredictable and sometimes perilous journey spanning two decades. Her writing is a self-conscious and imaginative response to changing landscapes that are often powerful and impossible.