MARGARET HALLISSY is Professor of English at C.W. Post College, Long Island University, where her specialty is medieval literature, especially with regard to women. Her essays have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Essays in Literature, Renascence, Studies in the Novel, and Studies in Short Fiction. She is the author of Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• The Three Estates of Women's Lives "Men han wrot the bokes": The Giving of Rules to Women Suffering Women and the Chaste Ideal Perfect Virgin, Perfect Wife: Transition Silent Tongue and Still: Women's Speech and Domestic Harmony The Gossip and the Shrew The Good, the Bad, and the Wavering: Women and Architectural Space "Superfluitee of clothynge": Women and Sartorial Excess "Wel at Ese": Widowhood Summa Feminarum: The Archwife Authority and Experience, Books and Life Selected Bibliography Index

MARGARET HALLISSY is Professor of English at C.W. Post College, Long Island University, where her specialty is medieval literature, especially with regard to women. Her essays have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Essays in Literature, Renascence, Studies in the Novel, and Studies in Short Fiction. She is the author of Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• The Three Estates of Women's Lives "Men han wrot the bokes": The Giving of Rules to Women Suffering Women and the Chaste Ideal Perfect Virgin, Perfect Wife: Transition Silent Tongue and Still: Women's Speech and Domestic Harmony The Gossip and the Shrew The Good, the Bad, and the Wavering: Women and Architectural Space "Superfluitee of clothynge": Women and Sartorial Excess "Wel at Ese": Widowhood Summa Feminarum: The Archwife Authority and Experience, Books and Life Selected Bibliography Index

MARGARET HALLISSY is Professor of English at C.W. Post College, Long Island University, where her specialty is medieval literature, especially with regard to women. Her essays have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Essays in Literature, Renascence, Studies in the Novel, and Studies in Short Fiction. She is the author of Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• The Three Estates of Women's Lives "Men han wrot the bokes": The Giving of Rules to Women Suffering Women and the Chaste Ideal Perfect Virgin, Perfect Wife: Transition Silent Tongue and Still: Women's Speech and Domestic Harmony The Gossip and the Shrew The Good, the Bad, and the Wavering: Women and Architectural Space "Superfluitee of clothynge": Women and Sartorial Excess "Wel at Ese": Widowhood Summa Feminarum: The Archwife Authority and Experience, Books and Life Selected Bibliography Index