Motherhood in the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Rivera, Alison Bucket.

Title
Motherhood in the Wife of Bath

Published
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 6 (1996): 103-16.

Description
Considers medieval family structures, attitudes toward sexuality, and marital practices to argue that the Wife of Bath "almost definitely had no children." Unlike Margery of Kempe, she may have been sterile.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.