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Gresham College: Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature

Chaucer's Wife of Bath as the first ordinary woman in English literature, and everyone who followed her.

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Marion Turner, who wrote a biography of a fictional character, traces the middle-aged, opinionated, sexually experienced woman from fourteenth-century Bath to Zadie Smith's Willesden, and argues that this was a genuinely new kind of person to put in a book. 13:00.

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Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH
Nearest station
Chancery Lane · 1 min walk

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