Cities of Women
Jones, Kathleen B.![Cities of Women](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/424/42416196/CHSBZCOP0342416196.jpg)
Cities of Women is a work of historical literary fiction inspired by a decade of research on the medieval life and times of the proto-feminist, Christine de Pizan, the first European woman of letters to support herself as a writer. Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, the story moves between present and past in a dual narrative, evoking the spare joys and monumental pitfalls facing medieval women artists, and a contemporary woman who becomes obsessed...