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A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages

The Wife of Bath from <a href=&quot;https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/2838/&quot;>The Ellesmere Manuscript</a>, one of the earliest manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's <em>The Canterbury Tales.</em> (The Huntington Library)
The Wife of Bath from The Ellesmere Manuscript, one of the earliest manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. (The Huntington Library)

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