Wife's Prologue/Christine

Author / Editor
Newman, Barbara.

Title
Wife's Prologue/Christine

Published
Medieval Feminist Newsletter 9 (1990): 18.

Description
Brief comments about "pairing" WBP and Christine de Pizan in the classroom; mentions the Wife's "deliberate misreading, invective, and outright mockery" of misogynistic writing, and Chaucer's irony that "slices Jerome and the Wife with a single sword."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale