Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," D. 389.

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," D. 389.

Published
Explicator 24.2 (1965): item no. 14.

Description
Contends that the WB's reference to grinding at a mill (WBP 3.389) capitalizes on traditional sexual associations of mills with women, anticipated at her reference to "barly-breed" (WBP 3.144).

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale