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."—NY Times Book Review In dialogs with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude & Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization & arguments that prove their intellectual & moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges & universities in the USA, from Columbia to Stanford.