Married five times, the wife of bath is one of the two female characters in Canterbury tales. She is rich and argumentative and has taken part in many other pilgrimages. She is a talented seamstress and often uses her body in order to get what she wants. (1)
Bath is town in England, along the Avon River, it is not the name of her husband. She is a seamstress and a professional wife since she was married so many times, as well as having so many affairs in her youth. You could say she was well practiced in the art of love. She takes pleasure in marriage, sex, rich attire, talking and arguing. The gap between her two front teeth was told to be an attractive feature in Chaucer's time, and she was also deaf in one ear. (3)





























^^The wife of bath. She has been the focus of many translations, rewritings, and illustrations. (2)


Sources:
(1)http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/canalysis.html
(2) http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/GRAPHICS/WIFESZYK.JPG
(3) http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/characters.html