Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan
The Writer Christine de Pizan at Her Desk

About the Author

Sharon L. Jansen


After thirty-five years as a college professor, I retired in 2014. While I am no longer preparing for classes, grading stacks of papers, and going to endless meetings, I am not done with writing about women's history and women's literature. Through this blog project, I am hoping to connect with others who are also interested in these topics and to share with those who find their way to this site stories of the many remarkable women I have encountered throughout my years of research, reading, and teaching. I live and work in Seattle, Washington.

For those readers who might be interested in learning more about my professional work--books and articles about Tudor political history and women's history, as well as historical fiction and notice of what I'm working on right now--you can find more information at my website (http://sharonljansen.com/) or, more simply, by clicking here. (I can also be found on LinkedIn.)

To contact me, you can easily post a comment here on the blog, but you can also email me at slj@sharonljansen.com.

If for some unimaginable reason you would like more information about my academic career, please click here






4 comments:

  1. What a marvelous idea. I'm glad I found your blog. Thank you for mentioning mine as well.
    Susan Ozmore

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  2. Just found your blog after connecting with Susan Ozmore's. Christine de Pizan my heroine! I use her arguments in my novel to counteract the male misogyny of the time. A remarkable woman. (My novel is entitled The First Blast of the Trumpet!! & features John Knox! )

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  3. If you're looking for people who love - and enjoy sharing - women's history, you've certainly found one more ! Keep up the good (as well as entertaining and informative) work !

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  4. I can't even recall how I came upon your blog. Most likely the result of my endless and mindless internet surfing on a nightly basis. But I haven't left your blog in several hours. At first, I was intrigued and hungry for the the extra layers of historical information on these women that I was reading, until I actually read through the 2017 posts. And then it became all to real, and all-too close to me. The information wasn't shedding additional light on a female historical figure of importance of 500 years ago, it was shedding light on women I could reach out and touch. I will continue reading and I hope that you continue to post. I have shared a few of the quotes and excerpts from a couple of your posts on my facebook page, with appropriate reference and a link to the corresponding blog. I hope this is appropriate. Thank you.

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