The Wife of Bath

In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath — a.k.a. Alisoun — presents herself to the other characters in the story as an authority on marriage. Her prime qualification: she's been married five times. Interesting logic, that.

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