Martha Moulsworth and Chaucer's Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Hirshfeld, Heather.

Title
Martha Moulsworth and Chaucer's Wife of Bath

Published
Critical Matrix 10 (Special Issue, 1996): 48-50.

Description
Observes points of similarity and difference between WBP and Martha Moulsworth's poetic autobiography, "Memorandum" (1632). The Wife serves as Moulsworth's "stylistic and rhetorical precursor."

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