The Heptameron - A Novel About Women

Marguerite puts this dispute front and centre of the hetameron. Unlike christine de pizan, marguerite does not have a widespread reputation as proto effeminis icon. Yet it is all the more effective that the misogenous characters are allowed to damn themselves from their own mouths. A few lines of poetry from the preface of marguerite's collected writings is a perfect example. She may have drawn on her own experience of sexual assault for one or more of the tales.