Christine de Pizan (1 of 2)
😢💰👑Grief, Debt, and Royal Inks: Christine de Pizan Takes up the Quill 📜🪶
What happens when 14th-century Paris gives you a brilliant scholarly upbringing, only to yank the rug out with sudden grief, debt collectors, and a family to feed? You trade your tears for ink and invoice the aristocracy.
In part one of our two-part special on Christine de Pizan, we meet Europe’s first professional woman writer. Christine bypassed the convent and took on the debtors, defying the odds to earn her own living with a quill in hand. Tune in to hear how sheer survival instinct turned a grieving young mother…
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