The Book of the City of Ladies (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Book of the City of Ladies "Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past." The New York Times Book Review
Full description- Publisher: PERSEA BOOKS INC
- Published: 01 September 1998
- Format: Paperback 346 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Feminism & Feminist Theory | Gender Studies: Women | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780892552306 ISBN 10: 0892552301
- Sales rank: 311,948
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Full description for The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and her literary activities. She was only twenty-five when she was widowed and left without an inheritance. With three children to support, Christine turned to writing to earn her living. From 1390 to 1429, the presumed year of her death, she wrote more than twenty works, nearly all concerned with two themes: the political life of France and the defense of women. The Book of the City of Ladies is Christine de Pizan's most eloquent expression of her feminist beliefs.
