Motherhood in the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Rivera, Alison Bucket.
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.