Helen Swift
Associate Professor of Medieval French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hilda's College
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Christine de Pizan
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430) who, according to Simone de Beauvoir, was the first woman to 'take up her pen in defence of her sex'.
8 June 2017
Also featuring: Miranda Griffin, Marilynn Desmond