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Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" is about eight fair women. Who out of the following is not included…

Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'A Dream of Fair Women' (inspired by Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women') portrays Helen of Troy, Iphigenia, Cleopatra, Jephthah's Daughter, Rosamond de…

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Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" is about eight fair women. Who out of the following is not included in this poem ?

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Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'A Dream of Fair Women' (inspired by Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women') portrays Helen of Troy, Iphigenia, Cleopatra, Jephthah's Daughter, Rosamond de Clifford, Joan of Arc, Margaret Roper, and Eleanor of Castile; Cressida (a symbol of infidelity) is not one of the fair women in the poem.

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