The Resource The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks
The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks
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The item The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364. When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's constantly told to seek redemption for her many sins, quickly realises it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side - or any poor woman's for that matter. But Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars. Both a lover and a fighter, she will not bow meekly to fate. Even if five marriages, several pilgrimages, many lovers, violence, mayhem and wildly divergent fortunes (that swoop up and down as if spinning on Fortuna's Wheel itself) do not for a peaceful life make. Aided and abetted by her trusty god-sibling Alyson, the counsel of one Geoffrey Chaucer, and a good head for business, Eleanor fights to protect those she loves from the vagaries of life, the character deficits of her many husbands, the brutalities of medieval England and her own fatal flaw, a lusty appreciation of mankind. All while continuing to pursue the one thing all women want - control of their own lives. This funny, picaresque, clever retelling of Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from The Canterbury Tales is a cutting assessment of what happens when male power is left to run unchecked, as well as a recasting of a literary classic that gives a maligned character her own voice, and allows her to tell her own (mostly) true story
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- 541 pages
- Isbn
- 9781489277466
- Label
- The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story
- Title
- The good wife of Bath
- Title remainder
- a (mostly) true story
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Brooks
- Subject
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. -- Adaptations
- Divorced women -- Fiction
- England -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Feminism -- Fiction
- AUS historical fiction (Australia,Queensland)
- Men -- Psychology -- Fiction
- Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction
- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364. When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's constantly told to seek redemption for her many sins, quickly realises it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side - or any poor woman's for that matter. But Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars. Both a lover and a fighter, she will not bow meekly to fate. Even if five marriages, several pilgrimages, many lovers, violence, mayhem and wildly divergent fortunes (that swoop up and down as if spinning on Fortuna's Wheel itself) do not for a peaceful life make. Aided and abetted by her trusty god-sibling Alyson, the counsel of one Geoffrey Chaucer, and a good head for business, Eleanor fights to protect those she loves from the vagaries of life, the character deficits of her many husbands, the brutalities of medieval England and her own fatal flaw, a lusty appreciation of mankind. All while continuing to pursue the one thing all women want - control of their own lives. This funny, picaresque, clever retelling of Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from The Canterbury Tales is a cutting assessment of what happens when male power is left to run unchecked, as well as a recasting of a literary classic that gives a maligned character her own voice, and allows her to tell her own (mostly) true story
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brooks, Karen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
- Married women
- Divorced women
- Female friendship
- Feminism
- Power (Social sciences)
- Men
- England
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Control code
- 000068882354
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- 541 pages
- Isbn
- 9781489277466
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1244172978
- Label
- The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story, Karen Brooks
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Control code
- 000068882354
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- 541 pages
- Isbn
- 9781489277466
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1244172978
Subject
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. -- Adaptations
- Divorced women -- Fiction
- England -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Feminism -- Fiction
- AUS historical fiction (Australia,Queensland)
- Men -- Psychology -- Fiction
- Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction
- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
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