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The good wife of Bath, a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks

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The good wife of Bath

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Karen Brooks

a (mostly) true story

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 lifeEngland, 1364. Married off at aged twelve to an elderly farmer, Eleanor quickly realizes it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side-- or any poor woman's for that matter. But then again, Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars, making her both a lover and a fighter. Aided by a head for business-- and a surprisingly kind husband-- Eleanor manages to turn her first marriage into success. She rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune who becomes a trusted friend of the social-climbing poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Through subsequent marriages-- some happy, some not-- several pilgrimages, many lovers, murder, mayhem, and many turns of fortune's wheel, Eleanor pursues the one thing that all women want: control of their own lives. -- adapted from back cover