The World's Wife

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The World's Wife is a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy published in 1999.

The poems follow Duffy's typical feminist theme. Here she takes events and characters from history and changes them into a woman's perspective. It is her first themed collection and is an AS Level English Literature set text.

[edit] Selected Poems

Here is a list of selected poems featured in this collection, with what they are a take on:

Little Red Cap - Little Red Riding Hood
The Kray Sister's - The Kray Twins
The Devil's wife - Myra Hindley
Anne Hathaway - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
Mrs. Darwin - Charles Darwin

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