Fairies and Feminism : Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Bronté's Jane Eyre

Author / Editor
Edminster, Warren.

Title
Fairies and Feminism : Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Bronté's Jane Eyre

Published
Victorian Newsletter 104 (2003): 22-28

Description
Similar concerns with fairies and male oppression encourage comparison of WBT and Jane Eyre; they reflect either Brontë's familiarity with Chaucer's work or a significant coincidence.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.