Mary Rhinelander McCarl

Mary McCarl (elected October 2005) died June 7, 2021. An archivist and independent historian of the book, she was also the author of articles on colonial New England witchcraft and medical practice. In The Plowman’s Tale: The c. 1532 and 1606 Editions of a Spurious Canterbury Tale (1997), she demonstrated that later collections of Chaucer’s work contained a forgery added for the purposes of radical Protestants. In her later years, McCarl was an accomplished artist affiliated with the Rocky Neck Art Colony of Gloucester.