The Mill in Popular Metaphor from Chaucer to the Present Day

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
The Mill in Popular Metaphor from Chaucer to the Present Day

Published
Southern Folklore Quarterly 33 (1969): 69-79.

Description
Traces the legacy of the mill as a metaphor for creativity, child-bearing, and sexual activity, drawing examples from WBP (3.384-90), HF (1798-99), and RvT (1.4313-14), among other sources.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
House of Fame
Reeve and His Tale