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The Wife of Bath 
Ellesmere Manuscript 
Huntington Library 
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WoB's Tale Page 
Ellesmere Manuscript 
Huntington Library 
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WoB's Prologue page 
Ellesmere Manuscript 
Huntington Library
  
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The Wife of Bath, 
MS Cambridge GG.4.27 
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Chaucer Society woodcut 
of The Wife of Bath, 
Based on MS Cambridge  
Gg.4.27
  
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Woodcut of the Wife 
of Bath after the 
Ellesmere Manuscript.
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Hand-colored woodcut of  
The Wife of Bath from  
the 2nd Caxton ed., 1483.
  
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The Wife of Bath, 
Pynson Edition, 1492. 
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Wife-beating 
Le Roman de la Rose 
Bibliothèque St. Geneviève, Paris.
  
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Marital Bliss 
Bible of Manerius 
Bibliothèque St. Geneviève, Paris.
  
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The Wife of Bath's Tale 
from Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896. 
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