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This lecture was recorded by Marion Turner on the 30th of September 2026
Marion Turner has published several award-winning books including Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton, 2019) and The Wife of Bath: A Biography (Princeton, 2023). She curated a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Chaucer Here and Now, in 2024.
She is deeply committed to public engagement, working regularly with schools and with adult education as well as talking at literary festivals such as Hay on Wye, the Edinburgh festival, the Cheltenham festival, and the Oxford literary festival, and on the radio, e.g. Start the Week, the Today programme, Women’s Hour, You’re Dead to Me, Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes. She holds the senior chair in medieval literature at the University of Oxford – the J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language.
The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/women-bath
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