Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great is 15th and 16th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 12 |
SMOG Index | Grade 13 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 11 |
The estimated word count of Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great is 13,330 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 0 hrs 54 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 29 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 30 mins.
Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great - 13,330 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 1 hrs 29 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 0 hrs 54 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 0 hrs 30 mins |
for Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical ‘City of Ladies’ where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1405 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women's reputations from the slights and misunderstandings of history. In it the author is visited by three spirits – Justice, Rectitude and Reason – who guide her in sifting through countless lives, in search of worthy citizens. Over 600 years later, the historian and novelist Lisa Hilton picks up the book and promptly falls asleep, only to be visited by three great women from history: Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great. And they aren’t happy. Having found themselves barred from the original ‘City of Ladies’, they want to know why. And isn’t it time, they ask, for a new author to take up the pen? What follows is a reassessment of the past, in which deeds and reputations, rumours and reality are held up to the light, and history is wrested back from the distortions of misogyny.