![]() ![]() ![]() More recently, scholars have begun to appreciate the full range of Christine’s literary output. Nor was Christine’s fame limited to academia: Judy Chicago’s 1974 iconic work of feminist art, The Dinner Party, awards the poet a place setting. ![]() It is true that Christine’s writing has attracted interest to varying degrees over the centuries, but her modern celebrity resulted from her perceived proto-feminism. But Christine sold her work to a variety of clients, recycling and tailoring her texts to fit the individual, and her skill at ‘authorizing’ or legitimating herself as an author in a profoundly misogynistic society, along with, more generally, her defences of women, brought her widespread scholarly interest in the 1970s when women’s studies programmes began to be established in universities throughout the English-speaking world. Writers had always been supported by wealthy patrons. 1365–1431) - Parisian author born in Venice (although, as her name indicates, her family traced its origins to Pizzano, about twenty-five kilometres to the south of Bologna) - is often regarded as the first person in France, male or female, to have earned a living by her pen. ![]()
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