Chaucer and the Eighteenth Century: the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders

Author / Editor
Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.

Title
Chaucer and the Eighteenth Century: the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 1:2 (1979): 13-15.

Description
Notes broad similarities between the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders and concludes that Moll is an 18th-century analogue of Alison.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.