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From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

Marion Turner introduces one of the most memorable and colourful figures of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath

Published: February 16, 2023 at 2:13 PM

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The Wife of Bath is a stand-out figure in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The only ordinary woman in the procession of pilgrims heading to Thomas Becket’s shrine, Alison is a sexually active, outspoken and funny working woman whose voice leaps from the page. Speaking with Emily Briffett, Marion Turner explores the Wife of Bath’s tale, revealing what it can tell us about the reality of women’s lives in the fourteenth century, and how its themes still resonate today.

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Marion Turner is the author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2023)

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Marion Turner

Marion Turner is a professor of English literature at the University of Oxford

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