![]() ![]() ![]() I will also argue that William and Margaret Cavendish owned the important Harley manuscript collection of Christine’s work. Therefore Elizabeth I and others associated with the court, including Aemilia Lanyer, could have read Christine’s text. 2 In this essay, I hope to demonstrate that the Tudor courts were familiar with the idea of a “city of ladies” in a limited but definite way, and that manuscripts of her works including the Livre de la eité des dames were available in the royal libraries. ![]() Whereas she presides as first feminist over her descendants, and her City of Ladies is used as a model for their work as well as for that of scholars today, 1 research has not yet clarified the extent to which her works could have been known in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the study of women writers in early modern England, Christine de Pizan is everywhere and nowhere. ![]()
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