The Progress of Woman and the Atypical Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Paige, Linda Rohrer.

Title
The Progress of Woman and the Atypical Wife of Bath

Published
Tennessee Philological Bulletin 23 (1986): 22 (abstract).

Description
The progress of the Wife in the battle of the sexes illustrates progressive development of selfhood. Older and wiser, she sees that sovereignty mishandled has negative results. WBT shows that a woman must make concessions to make a marriage successful.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.