Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-06-18
Books mentioned on Why Must Widowhood Be So Difficult?
In almost every part of the world, in some form or fashion, widows have things harder than they did when their spouses were alive. In some places it means they pay higher taxes, in others it means they’re ostracized to live on the margins of society.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of narrative poems in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer that details the tales told by a diverse group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury.
Discussed“Like I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales Cher's Canterbury Tales the wife of bath I believe”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Canterbury Tales
“I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales—the wife of Bath, I believe—where they're just like always in a good mood, they have money, they're independent, they don't take any guff from anybody.”