Germaine Dempster collection

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Germaine Dempster collection

1940 - 1970

https://archives.colorado.edu/repositories/2/resources/1873

The Germaine Dempster collection includes copious notes, essays and bibilographies, letters, citicisms, reviews, articles, lecture notes, research on various elements of the Canterbury Tales, numerous Canterbury Tales reprints, and microfilm that explain Canterbury Tales (textual) relationships. The collection also includes travel materials.

28 boxes (14 linear feet)

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ita, Latn

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spa, Latn

fre, Latn

eng, Latg

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Dempster, Germaine, 1898-1970

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Germaine Celestine Henriette Collette was born in France. She graduated from the University of Liege and later emigrated to the United States in 1924 to complete requirements for a Ph.D. in English Literature at Stanford University, California. Her thesis on the dramatic irony of Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1932, set the stage for years of extensive study about Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, for which she became a noted authority. She wrote and published numerous articles, reviews and boo...