[AnAmericanMother]

Thanks. I knew there was SOME controversy and Bennett Cerf was involved, but Ulysses makes more sense as being less obviously naughty.

[durasell]

Oh, maybe you were thinking of the scandal with Cerf and Kitty Carlisle and that satan worshipping S&M cult financed by white slavery and Chinatown opium dens.

[gingerky]

Hi, I'm off work and getting ready to go to class.

I did want to explain my position on the Wife. Last semester, I took a class just on Chaucer. In the midst of all the research I came across an article in which the writer contrasted the Wife with the writings of Christine de Pizan. De Pizan would have been considered an intellectual and social equal of Chaucer's. Anyway, the writer of the essay advanced the idea that de Pizan's writings put the Wife in perspective - de Pizan would not have considered the Wife's portrayal as a positive one at all. It was all very interesting, and made me totally reconsider my take on the Wife (which, at least for me, is the fun of the whole thing).