496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)
The History of Literature
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The Wife of Bath, Biography by Marian Turner
Marian Turner is the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. She's an academic authority on Jeffrey Chaucer and has written several books, including Chaucer, A European Life. Marian Turner: "I became really fascinated by the fact that this poet writing in the 14th century was writing about things"
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