Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great...

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Lisa Hilton

Sex and the City of Ladies

Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great

Lisa Hilton

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HARPER360
18 December 2020

Myth & legend told as fiction; Historical fiction; History

The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical ‘City of Ladies’ where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago.

In 1405 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women's reputations from the slights and misunderstandings of history. In it the author is visited by three spirits – Justice, Rectitude and Reason – who guide her in sifting through countless lives, in search of worthy citizens. Over 600 years later, the historian and novelist Lisa Hilton picks up the book and promptly falls asleep, only to be visited by three great women from history: Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great. And they aren’t happy. Having found themselves barred from the original ‘City of Ladies’, they want to know why. And isn’t it time, they ask, for a new author to take up the pen? What follows is a reassessment of the past, in which deeds and reputations, rumours and reality are held up to the light, and history is wrested back from the distortions of misogyny.

By: Lisa Hilton
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 184mm, Width: 117mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9780008389604
ISBN 10: 0008389608
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Hilton is a biographer, art historian and the author of the internationally bestselling art world thriller series Maestra. She has been reviewing for the TLS for over twenty years. Lisa lives in Venice, Italy, with her daughter.

Reviews for Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great

'Clever, droll and fabulous – a thought-provoking blend of history, fable and glamour' Lucy Worsley, historian ‘A witty and wonderful woman's-eye view of three of history's most maligned female power brokers’ Hallie Rubenhold, 2020 Baillie-Gifford-Prize-winning author of The Five