From the novel; The Wives' Revolt
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
‘But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.
The expression hags and witches refers to
- old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
- the three women who turned into goats
- all the women in the play
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handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
