She says in her preface: Again and again Boccaccio
repeated that he wrote for women's instruction and delight, yet none but men have written about him.
qtd. in
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. v - xxxv.
xxxii
She called the Decameronthat radiant and lovely...
