The Wife of Beith

For works with similar titles, see The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (Chaucer).

Versions of
The Wife of Beith
by Anonymous

This poem features a character derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales, but this work was not written by him.
Of the 16 versions listed below, all are chapbooks from the National Library of Scotland. Most of them carry no publication date and some do not have an identified printer. There are some duplicates, which are identified below (see also Discussion page).
The number in square brackets corresponds to the 'suffix' used on the Index pages.

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Versions of The Wife of Beith include:

The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1800, printed by J. Morren, Edinburgh) [1]
The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [2]
The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [3]
The Wife of Beith with a description of her journey to Heaven (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Falkirk)[4]
The Wife of Beith with a description of her journey to Heaven (n.d., printed for the booksellers) [5]
The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [6]
The Wife of Beith being an allegorical dialogue (start transcription) [7]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Glasgow) [8]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1795, printed by J & M Robertson, Glasgow) [9]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Glasgow) [10]
The Wife of Beith much better reformed, enlarged and corrected, than it was formerly (1785) [11]
The Wife of Beith (n.d., printed by C. Caldwell, Paisley) [12]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1811, printed by J. Neilson, Paisley) (transcription project) [13]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected [14, duplicate of (1) or (3) - do not transcribe]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected [15, duplicate of (1) or (3) - do not transcribe]
The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed by M. Randall, Stirling)