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The traditional estates were specific to men (although the clergy also included nuns); women were considered a class in themselves, [1] the best-known example being Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Estate satire praised the glories and purity of each class in its ideal form, but was also used as a window to show how society had gotten out of hand.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
A Wife, a 1614 poem by Sir Thomas Overbury "The Wife", an 1819 essay by Washington Irving from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Wife, a 1975 novel by Bharati Mukherjee; The Wife, a 2003 novel by Meg Wolitzer; The Wife, an 1833 play by James Sheridan Knowles; Wife, a 2019 play by Samuel Adamson
The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles.The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.
Abraham attempts to continue his blood line through his wife's maidservant, with consequences that continue through history. Jacob's family life is complicated with similar incidents. The following works of literature have adultery and its consequences as one of their major themes. (M) and (F) stand for adulterer and adulteress respectively.
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer, himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her ...
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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (full title: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II) is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe.