The Wife of Bath could easy be argued to be a proto-feminist and proto-queer character. Married five times and wealthy from collecting her dead husbands' assets, we have t wonder: is she a proto-sugar baby too?

Whatever her labels, she is fierce with a witty tongue and definitely what the youngsters are calling "sex-positive".

Want to read her tale, but don't know Middle English? See Harvard's interlinear translation!