Marion Turner

Marion Turner is a professor of English literature at the University of Oxford and author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2023)

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Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath: how Chaucer's character gives a voice to medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century). "The world in which Chaucer moved was very outward-looking," says Marion Turner. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.