The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story

Brooks, Karen (Australian author), author.

Book 2022

In 1364 England, one of literature's most unforgettable characters--Chaucer's Wife of Bath--tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life.

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