Diane Watt

Standard Name: Watt, Diane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society . Diane Watt summarized the growth of her reputation...

Timeline

Later 1400s: This half-century probably saw the life of...

Women writers item

Later 1400s

This half-century probably saw the life of Gwerful Mechain , the only woman in medieval Wales to have left a considerable body of identifiable poetry (in Welsh).
“Gwaith Gwerful Mechain ac Eraill”. Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

Texts

Watt, Diane. Email to Isobel Grundy about Gwerful Mechain.
Watt, Diane. “Meeting Margery Kempe”. Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon, University of Surrey.