General Prologue: Introduction Fragment I, lines 1–42 Summary Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote . . . (See Important Quotations Explained) The narrator opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring. He describes th...

Women in Transitional Worlds In a world where a woman's sphere was defined by their duties of motherhood, child-rearing, and homemaking; the beginnings of industrialization posed specific concerns on the impact that factory work would have on family life, even more specifically on women. The ni...