If Chaucer’s created a timeless and transcendent character in the Wife of Bath, it is because he listened–really listened–to women.
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A Woman 600 Years Ahead of Her Time
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St. Paul, St. Thecla, and the Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath threads between visions of marriage articulated by St. Paul. In the process, she articulates a far more spiritual vision than that propagated by misogynist monks of the period.
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