The Wives of Bath - Allusions/references To Other Works/authors

Allusions/references To Other Works/authors

  • Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath
  • Charlotte Brontë's criticism of Jane Austen
  • The character and suicide of Virginia Woolf

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