Editing Alice Perrers (section)

==Influence on literature==
Perrers is thought to have served as the [[prototype]] for [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s [[Wife of Bath]] in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Braddy |first=Haldeen |year=1946 |title=Chaucer and Dame Alice Perrers |journal=Speculum |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=222–228 |doi=10.2307/2851319 |jstor=2851319 |s2cid=161165433}}</ref> She was also a major [[Patronage|patron]] of Chaucer.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Harley |first1=Marta Powell |date=1993 |title=Geoffrey Chaucer, Cecilia Chaumpaigne, and Alice Perrers: a closer look |journal=The Chaucer Review |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=78–82 |jstor=25095830}}</ref>{{clarify|reason=Bald statement needs expanding|date=January 2022}} Her influence on literature may also have extended to [[William Langland]]'s Lady Mede in ''[[Piers Plowman]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rogers |first=William Elford |title=Interpretation in Piers Plowman |publisher=The Catholic University of America Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780813210926 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> Langland describes Lady Meed wearing rings of purest "perreize", a word for precious stones possibly chosen to play on the surname Perrers.<ref>Laura Tompkins, 'Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress', Cathleen Sarti, ''Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts'' (Leeds: ARC, 2020), p. 62.</ref>