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Christine de Pizan, France's first woman of letters, was a strong and important voice of her era. Widowed at twenty-five with three small children and no inheritance, she turned to writing out of necessity, but she soon found her way to the center of Europe's intellectual life. Like no other woman writer before her, she openly expressed her views on current events and the social life of France, and used details from her own life within her work, transforming autobiographical fact into literature. She was the author of more than twenty distinguished works, including the official biography of King Charles V, a poem celebrating the victories of Joan of Arc, and many books about the condition of the lives of women. When her "Book of the City of Ladies" was published in its first modern English translation by Persea in 1982, the response from readers and critics alike confirmed that she speaks with equal eloquence today. Now, in this definitive biography written by the scholar acknowledged to be the foremost authority on Christine, she comes to us across half a millennium as the extraordinary woman she was: daughter, wife, mother, one of Europe's most respected intellectuals, and a writ

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Author

Charity Cannon Willard

Publisher

Persea Books, Incorporated

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780892550845

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24