The Canterbury Tales
How old was the wife when she was first married?
what might this indicate about childhood in middle ages
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what might this indicate about childhood in middle ages
The Wife of Bath was twelve years old when she married her first husband.
"Experience, though it would be no authority in this world, would be quite sufficient for me, to speak of the woe that is in marriage; for, gentle people, since I was twelve years old..."
The Canterbury Tales