She defends the polygamy of Solomon and Abraham in her prologue, perhaps because she has been married five times and later asserts that what women want most is sovereignty over their husbands in her story of a knight forced to marry a hag who saved him from execution.
She has a bold handsome face which is "red in hue," but she also has large hips and gap teeth and is "somewhat deaf." She wears scarlet red hose which are "gartered tight" and a hat "As broad as a buckler." Skilled at cloth- making, she has been to Cologne, St. James of Campostella, Rome, and Jerusalem. She defends the polygamy of Solomon and Abraham in her prologue, perhaps because she has been married five times and later asserts that what women want most is sovereignty over their husbands in her story of a knight forced to marry a hag who saved him from execution. FTP name this proto- feminist pilgrim in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales named in part for her town of origin.
She has a bold handsome face which is "red in hue," but she also has large hips and gap teeth and is "somewhat deaf."
{Wife of Bath} (prompt on Alison or Alisoun).