Marion Turner
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English
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"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Unabridged.
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English
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"Winner of the Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University" "Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, The English Association, University of Leicester" "Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy" "Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation" "Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, Historical Writers' Association" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography,...
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