Three Readings of the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Black, Merrill.

Title
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath

Published
Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, eds. Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2003), pp.85-95.

Description
An autobiographical reading of WBPT by a woman who was for a time an abused wife. Black records three different responses to Chaucer's materials at three different stages in her life, focusing on the Wife's responses to abuse by her husbands.

Contributor
Freedman, Diane P., ed
Frey, Olivia, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.