Carson combined a scientist’s ability to see with a novelist’s ability to imagine” new Yorker

könnte Han - mit Schiller - schließen

and continue to witness

Melissa McCarthy is a writer based in Edinburgh

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The Wife of Bath: A Biography Florian Hadler Carson combined a scientist’s abilityEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucers Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readersfrom Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the