Wife of bath

Get to know The Wife of Bath, one of the pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales". She is a strong-willed woman, married five times, and on the lookout for number six! Never dull, she wants equality with men.

The Man of Law, or Sergeant at Law, is the equivelant of a modern-day lawyer. Since there was apparently a need for lawyers in this time, we know that this was a time that had rules and laws that needed to be enforced, sometimes requiring the assistance of a lawyer. Lawyers had the social status of middle class. This particular lawyer often settled disputes, usually about land. Unfortunately, we don't know a lot about this particular Man of Law, other than the fact that he was generally…

According to one of Ted Hughes’s lesser-known poems, Sylvia Plath once recited The Wife of Bath to a field of cows near Cambridge. Chaucer’s most famous creation was, the poem claims, Plath’s “favourite character in all literature”. The cattle were seemingly enthralled, gazing at Plath until Hughes shooed them away. Whether they preferred the Wife’s prologue, in which she recalls her five marriages and defends a woman’s right to marry as many times as she pleases, or her tale about a young

The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.

‘Moving, and vastly informative, a real page turner of a historical novel.’ - Fay Weldon The Handfasted Wife is the story of the Norman Conquest from the perspective of Edith (Elditha) Swanneck, Harold’s common-law wife. She is set aside for a political marriage when Harold becomes king in 1066. Determined to protect her children’s destinies

More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism

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The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer. 14th century.