Cities of Women av Kathleen B. Jones

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<p><b>“With a scholar’s commitment to accurate detail, and the heart of a lover of beauty, Kathleen B. Jones’s engaging and well-crafted parallel story is as colorful and lucid as the illuminated manuscripts at the center of her novel.” —Laurel Corona, author of <i>The Mapmaker’s Daughter</i></b></p><p>A deeply affecting dual narrative separated by several centuries, <i>Cities of Women</i> examines the lives of women who dare to challenge the social norms of their days, risking their reputations and livelihoods for the sake of their passions.</p><p>In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral