Flavourless Bacon
Irina Dumitrescu: The Wife of Bath, 10 August 2023
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
by Marion Turner.
Princeton, 320 pp., £20, January,978 0 691 20601 1 Show More
by Marion Turner.
Princeton, 320 pp., £20, January,
The Wife of Willesden
by Zadie Smith.
Hamish Hamilton, 109 pp., £7.99, November 2021,978 0 241 47196 8 Show More
by Zadie Smith.
Hamish Hamilton, 109 pp., £7.99, November 2021,
The Good Wife of Bath
by Karen Brooks.
William Morrow, 541 pp., £9.99, March 2022,978 0 06 314283 1 Show More
by Karen Brooks.
William Morrow, 541 pp., £9.99, March 2022,
“... continue living in the marital home until they died or remarried. Turner gives the examples of Margaret Stodeye, probably known to Chaucer, whose four husbands included two mayors of London; Alice Chaucer, the poet’s granddaughter, whose fortune grew over the course of her three marriages; and his great-niece Katherine Neville, whose fourth wedding, to a ... ”