Dorothy Everett

Dorothy Everett (1894 – 1953) was an English scholar of medieval literature known for her work on romance, Chaucer, the Gawain poet, alliterative verse, and the psalter of Richard Rolle. Holding academic positions at three colleges at the University of Oxford, she was also a prolific editor and reviewer.

Everett’s readings of individual texts, including ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' and especially the English Psalter of Richard Rolle, have remained influential into the twenty-first century. She is credited with opening up a new strand of structural studies in Chaucerian narratives by acknowledging his influence from rhetorical manuals, and of bringing the Arthurian poet Layamon into critical focus. More broadly, her contributions to the definition of the romance genre, which focus on its content and ‘grammar’, remain influential. Provided by Wikipedia