Middle+Ages+Letter

Dearest father,

I am writing to you from France, I know you won’t get this since you have died. But I would like to inform you on how I am in spirit. I would like to tell you on what I’ve been though, and how much I missed you. For starters I have married Etienne du Castel; he’s a notary and a member of the French Court. He has encouraged my intelligence and self-expression. We had three children together, a daughter and two sons. Then during the Black Plague he was on a trip with the King, and he ended up dying on the trip to Beauvais. Which then leads me to take care of my children on my own. I’ve been through a lot; I’ve had to balance his financial debts. Then I decided I would like to be in the process of being a professional writer, which I became. I would love it for you to be here right now father, it’d make me happier than what I am now. I have gotten the opportunity to write stuff, like my biography of Charles V, and some of my political essays. Along with that my novel **//Tresor de la Cite des Dames //**(The City of Ladies). I had to go through all of this and my husbands death, but I am proud to be a writer, and proud to have my children. I just wish you were here to see it in person and read my stuff I’ve written. I'll never forget about you.

Love,  Christine de Pisan

"Christine De Pisan." //Biography Resource Center//. Ed. Thomas Gale. N.p., 2010. Web. 8 Mar. 2010. .