Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: Who Painted the Lion?
Part One: The Marriage Debt, 1364 to 1386
The Tale of Husband the First, Fulk Bigod, 1364 to 1369
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Pilgrimage to Canterbury
The Tale of Husband the Second, Turbet Gerrish, 1370 to 1377
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Pilgrimage to Rome
The Tale of Husband the Third, Mervyn Slynge, 1378 to 1380
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Pilgrimage to Cologne
The Tale of Husband the Fourth, Simon de la Pole, 1380 to 1384
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Tale of Husband the Fifth, Jankin Binder, 1385 to 1386
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One
Thirty-Two
Pilgrimage to Canterbury
Part Two: Feme Sole, 1387 to 1401
Weaving a New Life, 1387 to 1391
Thirty-Three
Thirty-Four
Thirty-Five
Thirty-Six
Thirty-Seven
Pilgrimage to St. Martin’s Le Grand
Spinning the Bawd’s Tale, 1390 to 1401
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Nine
Forty
Forty-One
Forty-Two
Forty-Three
Forty-Four
Forty-Five
Forty-Six
Forty-Seven
Forty-Eight
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Glossary
List of Real People in the Novel
P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*
About the Author
About the Book
Read On
Praise
Also by Karen Brooks
Copyright
About the Publisher